Art Quote by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

“It is the purpose of art to heighten the mystery”

— David William Richards

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us…

— Willa Cather

“None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the…

— Pope John Paul II

“Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of our lives.”

— Ashley Bryan

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates…

— Kamand Kojouri

“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“... I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand.…

— Terri Windling

“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

“The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our deepest secret,…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is a performer.…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from…

— Robert Henri