Quotes about Art

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

If I could meet Rembrandt right where he had painted father and son, God and humanity, compassion and misery, in one circle of love, I would come to know as much as I ever would about death and life. I also sensed the hope that through Rembrandt's masterpiece I would one day be able to express what I most wanted to say about love.

I looked at the splendid drawings and paintings Rembrandt created in the midst of all his setbacks, disillusionment and grief. One must have died many deaths and cried many tears to have painted a portrait of God in such humility.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

The Vedas say, All intelligences awake with the morning. Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.