Art Quotes

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Art is frozen Zen

I must confess, mine eye and heart Dote less on Nature than on Art.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art is my cousin Art.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist knows how difficult it is.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterises prayer too, and the eye of the storm. I think art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction