Quotes about Art

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Music happens. It cannot be made.

I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality of the suffering of the artist, composer or writer, but it points to something creative and redemptive in the human person, made in the image of God, which can bring forth a thing of beauty in the midst of surrounding ugliness, brutality and evil. Nowhere is this more true than in the book of Lamentations.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.