Quotes about Art

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

Most of your statues in churches do not correspond to the picture I have of you. In the statues you are shown very much like a nun, with a rosary in your hand. You are smiling serenely. But nuns have no children. You have. Your true likeness has yet to be depicted.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime...

It is possible for music to be labeled Christian and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could be recycled cliches. That Christian band could actually be giving Jesus a bad name because they aren't a great band. It is possible for a movie to be a Christian movie and to be a terrible movie. It may actually desecrate the art form in its quality and storytelling and craft.

Connection is an engine of creation.