Art Quote by Calvin Seerveld Download Open image “Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.” — Calvin Seerveld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Ideals Materials Reality Religion Spiritual Strive Wrestling
Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“Art is a concept used for making your soul grow. It's God's way of showing you that you also have the power to create.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously. — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust,… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image