Art Quotes

"Art is the only thing that survives politics."

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

"Music and writing are the only two things that ever made sense to me."

"Art is the only thing that matters in life - everything else is just distraction."

"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, over the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved."

"Art is the effort of man to express not what he sees but what he feels."

"The truth about art is that those who make it are often less reliable as judges of it than those who merely enjoy it."

"The task of the artist is not to resolve life's contradictions, but to bear witness to them."

"Art is a kind of assault on the mysteries of being."

"The work of art is a conversation between creator and audience."

"The artist's task is to bear witness to the sacred and profane."

"Your life is a sculpture that you are constantly carving."

"The real world is far more full of surprises than art."

"Art is what happens when you refuse to compromise."

"The work of art is the object, and the good of the object is to be alive."

"Art requires an audience but the audience need not be many."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception of the world."

"A sense of place is important to narrative."

"The heart of good writing is always the heart."

"What is the setting of a story but the heart of a character?"

"Art is a response to life."

"Art preserves what matters most."

"Art is not a luxury; it is a necessity."

"Popular art is the dream of society; it tells you what society is dreaming about."

"Shape has always meant something to me."

"The difference between erotica and pornography is lighting."

"The grotesque can serve all our purposes."

"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn the dust, you scorn everything human."

"A writer who aims at producing the beautiful by declaration instead of by creation is not operating on anything."

"The fiction writer is presenting life as she finds it to be worth living."