Art Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special…

— Joseph C Zinker

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

— Stanley Spencer

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

— Michael Gungor

“Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require a reader…

— Ronald Carter

“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is…

— Laird Barron

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate,…

— Aleister Crowley

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

— Pope Benedict XVI

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature,…

— Paul Cezanne

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things...

— Tracey Emin

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

— Stanley Spencer