Quotes about Art

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.