Quotes about Art

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I love to paint.

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

People of Pakistan don't want a ban on Indian content in their country, but it is their politicians who want it. In our country too, politicians want to ban their art and artists.

I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

We are not called by God to die to the "good" parts of who we are. God never asked us to die to the healthy desires and pleasures of life—to friendships, joy, art, music, beauty, recreation, laughter, and nature. God plants desires in our hearts so we will nurture and enjoy them. Often these desires and passions are invitations from God, gifts from him. Yet somehow we feel guilty unwrapping these presents.

She asked for clay and started to make models and sculptures. She

God has high standard for art, and obviously he does not and cannot endorse the content of work that is pornographic or propagandistic, or that violates his character in some other way.

Rather than giving in to meaninglessness and despair, Christian artists know that there is a way out. Thus they create images of grace, awakening a desire for the new heavens and the new earth by anticipating the possibilities of redemption in Christ.