Quotes about Art
Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
— Martin Luther
Colors speak all languages.
— Joseph Addison
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
— Michelangelo
We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.
— GK Chesterton
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
— DH Lawrence
What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.
— Marty Rubin
How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.
— Marty Rubin
most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
— Napoleon Hill
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
— Toni Morrison
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
— Toni Morrison