Quotes about Art

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Our fourth child, decided to draw pictures for me in 1 Peter, in red ink. Her scribbles are there today, and I love every blot!

Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than before.

Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize that because they are like God they can really invent. Artistic inventiveness is a reflection of God's unbounded capacity to create.

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.

Denied access to information about important arenas of human life, history, and art, women like Augusta Welland demonstrate well into adulthood a lack of moral insight and sympathetic compassion.

When she said to him once It looks as if it was painted! it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther, and that words had at last been found to utter his secret souls.