Quotes about Art

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Man creates what he is.

He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Sometimes an uncontrollable feeling of sadness grips us, he said. We recognize that the magic moment of the day has passed and that we've done nothing about it. Life begins to conceal its magic and its art. We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice. The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Words are life set down on paper.