Quotes about Art
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
— Pablo Picasso
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
— Oscar Wilde
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
— Albert Camus
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
— CS Lewis
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
— Francis Schaeffer
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
— Erwin McManus
Words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.
— Frederick Buechner
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
— Oscar Wilde
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
— Oscar Wilde
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
— Oscar Wilde