Quotes about Art
Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that Eve is the crown of creation?
— John Eldredge
Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.
— John Eldredge
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
— John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
— John Keats
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.
— John Keats
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
— John Keats
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
— John Lennon
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
— CS Lewis
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
— CS Lewis
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
— Malcolm Muggeridge