Art Quote by El Greco

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is the god you have not seen.

— Mary Butts

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

— Wendy Beckett

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

— El Anatsui

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

— John Updike

All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind ,…

— Joseph Conrad