Quotes about Art
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
— Florence Nightingale
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
— GK Chesterton
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
— Carl Jung
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
— Steven Pressfield
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
— Pablo Picasso
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
— Oscar Wilde
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
— Albert Camus
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
— CS Lewis
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
— Francis Schaeffer
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
— Madeleine L'Engle