Quotes about Art

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.