Art Quote by Diane Setterfield

“Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”

— Diane Setterfield

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

— Saul Bellow

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a…

— Storm Jameson

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you,…

— Ben Okri

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

“Why we write. Because art blows life into the lifeless, death into the deathless. Because art's lie is preferable, in truth, to life's beautiful…

— Robert Coover

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more…

— Boots Riley

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the…

— Jean M. Auel

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson