Quotes about Art
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
— Margaret Atwood
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
— Pope John Paul II
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
— Oscar Wilde
Art should never be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
— Seth Godin
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.
— Tim LaHaye
I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.
— Tina Fey