Diane Manuel

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. – Walter Pater

Art validates us beyond what anyone else can do for us. – Anne Copeland

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! – William Wiley

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

How do you feel about art? Do you feel that viewing or creating art gives the highest quality to your moments? I welcome your thoughts in the comments.

Art is both creation and recreation. – Lin Yutang

Art thaws even the frozen, lofty soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art is the gift of God and must be used unto His glory. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau

There is art in any endeavor done well. – Irwin Greenberg

Art is man’s nature. Nature is God’s art. – James Bailey

All art is an attempt to manifest the face of God in life. – Cecil Collins

Art is about mystery. - Marisol

I like how art can mean so many different things and can affect us in different ways. Today’s quotations continue along this theme.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. – Henri Matisse

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Art is an international language, understood by all. – Igor Babailov

Art is both creation and recreation. – Lin Yutang

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Do you agree with these ideas? Feel free to respond in the comments.

The art quotations for today and the next few days will be about what art is and how it affects people.

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. – Roy Adzak

Great art can communicate before it is understoond. – T. S. Eliot

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. – Picasso

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. – Federico Fellini

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. – Lincoln Stefens

What does art mean to you? I welcome your comments.