Quotes about Art
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
- Ravi Zacharias
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
- Mike Posner
If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.
- Boots Riley
Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape
- Karl Barth
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
- Aristotle
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
- Martha Graham
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