Quotes about Art

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes.

The universe is your canvass; love is your paintbrush.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

20. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe — harmless, in fact — with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.