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. …
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 …
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 …
Today’s art quotations are also about the role of artists. The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. – Francis Bacon The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. – George Bellows To send light into the …
Today I am starting a series of posts containing quotations related to the theme of art and artists. The quotations for today and tomorrow are about the role of artists. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed …