Art Love Quotes:

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

- Robert Browning

source: robert browning (1863). “poems”, p.122

topic: God, Art, Art Love

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Art, Love Life, Play, Saying Hello, Exhibits

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Music, Running, Witty, Creative Artists, Inspiring Art

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

- Judy Garland

topic: Love, Funny, Romantic, Make Me Feel Special, Say I Love You

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Art, Dust, Soul, Purpose Of Art, Washing

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

- Andy Warhol

source: Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

topic: Art, Hate, Creativity, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Art, Dilettantes

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Witty, Hurt, Humor Love, Humorous Love

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Love, Nature, Art, Transcending, One With Nature

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

topic: Love, Life, Break Up, Hurting Him, Back Together

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

- Tim Winton

topic: Art, Compassion, Giving, Art Love, Pointless Things

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

- Judy Garland

topic: Kissing, Soul, Lips, Make Me Feel Special, Say I Love You

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Art, Two, Answers, Art Love

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Beautiful, Art, Laughter, Love Laughter, Sound Of Music

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

topic: Life, Art, Home, Art Love

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

- Otto Penzler

topic: Art, Book, People, Art Love

If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

- Oskar Schlemmer

source: Oskar Schlemmer, Tut Schlemmer (1990). “The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer”

topic: Art, Technology, Organization, Art Love

That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Art, Kindness, Honesty, Art Love

THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.

- Tad Williams

topic: Art, Book, Humorous, Common Things, Art Love

Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my attention, nor ever turn aside the eyes of my mind, because Thou dost enfold me with Thy constant regard; when I direct my love toward Thee alone because Thou, who art Love's self, hast turned Thee toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, save that embrace wherein Thy delightsome sweetness doth so lovingly enfold me?

- Nicholas of Cusa

source: "The Vision of God".

topic: Art, Eye, Self, Art Love, Of My Mind

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

- Willa Cather

source: Willa Cather (1986). “Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929”, p.52, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Summer, Dream, Art, Art Love