Quotes about Art
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
- Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
- Margaret Atwood
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
- Pope John Paul II
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- Oscar Wilde
Art should never be popular.
- Oscar Wilde
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
- Seth Godin