Quotes about Art

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.