Quotes about Art

I like making a piece of string into something I can wear.

Grandma quilts have love in every stitch.

You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

My whole life is a theater piece.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

In reading we must become creators.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

If our lives are truly hid with Christ in God, the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.