Quotes about Art

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Prayer is not a privilege for the pious, not the art of a chosen few. Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. My friend, he wants to talk with you. Even now, as you read these words, he taps at the door. Open it. Welcome him in. Let the conversation begin.

On your wedding day, God loaned you his work of art: an intricately crafted, precisely formed masterpiece. He entrusted you with a one-of-a-kind creation. Value her. Honor him. Having been blessed with a Testore, why fiddle around with anyone else?

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art

If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.