14,373 Quotes About Art

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.

Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.