Quotes about Art

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one and the same time to lose the self and find the self. It is paradoxical, but it is not impossible.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.