Quotes about Art

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

When "husbandry" becomes "science," the lowly has been exalted and the rustic has become urbane. Purporting to increase the sophistication of the humble art of farming, this change in fact brutally oversimplifies it.

As Walter Shewring rightly said, both "the plowman and the potter have a cosmic function." And bad art in any trade dishonors and damages Creation.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

I made it on the bevel.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.