Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Justine

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Rooftop Soliloquy

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

Stella! Mother of Modern Acting

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.

The State of the Art

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

The Shadow Catcher

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

Scars

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Speaking of Faith

It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.

Sodom and Gomorrah

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

The Space of Literature

There is music in my heart. There is art in my heart and there is majesty in my heart, because there is love in my heart!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

The Man Who Ate Everything

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

My Name Is Asher Lev

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

My Name Is Asher Lev

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Minima Moralia

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of .

Mature Themes

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The Nigger of the Narcissus

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Nevada

But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance.

Oryx and Crake