Quotes about Art

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

There was one activity that Bonhoeffer would enjoy in Barcelona, but could never enjoy in Berlin. That was the arte taurina (bull fighting). Though an aesthete and an intellectual, Bonhoeffer was neither effete nor squeamish. His brother Klaus arrived for a visit on Easter Saturday, and on Easter afternoon—Bonhoeffer preached that morning—they were "dragged" by a German teacher, presumably Thumm, to the "great Easter corrida."

Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

So the Eucharist -- in its sumptuous liturgical setting, surrounded by music, art, the word of God, and the prayer of the community -- does more than sustain the divine life in us. It delights us, as a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere