Quotes about Art
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
— Henry David Thoreau
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
— Walt Disney
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
— Seth Godin
You have first to experience what you want to express.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
— Duke Ellington
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
— Martin Luther
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
— Martin Luther
Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.
— Chris Tomlin