Quotes about Art

There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.

The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

There was one activity that Bonhoeffer would enjoy in Barcelona, but could never enjoy in Berlin. That was the arte taurina (bull fighting). Though an aesthete and an intellectual, Bonhoeffer was neither effete nor squeamish. His brother Klaus arrived for a visit on Easter Saturday, and on Easter afternoon—Bonhoeffer preached that morning—they were "dragged" by a German teacher, presumably Thumm, to the "great Easter corrida."

Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.