Quotes about Art

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

So the Eucharist -- in its sumptuous liturgical setting, surrounded by music, art, the word of God, and the prayer of the community -- does more than sustain the divine life in us. It delights us, as a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.