Quotes about Art

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Sometimes an uncontrollable feeling of sadness grips us, he said. We recognize that the magic moment of the day has passed and that we've done nothing about it. Life begins to conceal its magic and its art. We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice. The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Words are life set down on paper.

Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.