Quotes about Art
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
— Thomas Merton
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
— Erica Jong
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
— Maya Angelou
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
— John Ortberg
I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.
— Nicole Kidman
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
— Jon Gordon
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
— NT Wright
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
— Charles Swindoll
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
— Bishop TD Jakes
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
— Frank Lloyd Wright