Art Quotes

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy" "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds" "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars" "The better a work is the more it attracts criticism" "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better" "Charm is the indefinable quality that makes people, art, and love irresistible" "The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart" "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "The quality of art is that it makes the world strange, and in making it strange makes it vivid and interesting and therefore makes it worth living in." "The world was not created once and for all time, but as often as an original artist has been born" "Bring me the sunset in a cup" "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." "Translation is the art of failure" "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." "Music is well said to be the speech of angels" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion"