Quotes about Art
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...
— William Saroyan
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
— Mark Twain
Today is the first day and last day of your life...try to make every day a masterpiece.
— Mark Batterson
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
— Mark Twain
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
— CS Lewis
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
— Pablo Picasso
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
— Mark Vonnegut
The body is a sacred garment.
— Martha Graham
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
— Martha Graham
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
— Martha Graham
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
— Martin Luther