Ancient Quote by Helen Keller

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are…

— Oscar Wilde

“I came to admire at all angles a sculpture that speaks of the sacred, not of the mundane. Of that moment when two beings…

— Cisneros Sandra

“With the stone question In the heads of Greek statues Who ask where their arms And legs and the tips of their noses Have…

— James Dickey

“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

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight…

— Helen Keller

“Seeing that a simple pressure of the hand Can make the symbol of my senses stand, What if I saw your body, where unite…

— Henry M. Christman

“I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I was all…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to…

— Bert Dodson

“One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone…

— Vera Nazarian

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

“It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he…

— Walter Isaacson

“The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias, since it…

— Mark Twain