Quotes about Art
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
- Joseph Addison
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
- Brigham Young
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
- Maya Angelou
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
- John Updike
Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
- Danny Boyle
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
- Coco Chanel
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
- Philip James Bailey
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
- William Golding
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
- Dante Alighieri
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
- Vincent Van Gogh