Art Quote by Hesse, Hermann

“It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Some people were like pottery. They had been tested in a fire just hot enough to make them capable, but perhaps not durable.”

— Heather Burch

“He was to be the sun that would ripen the crowd for carving skin instead of wooden ornaments.”

— Nick Oliveri

“They can be like the sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”

— St. John of the Cross

“The sun burnt everyday. It burnt time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the…

— Ray Bradbury

“He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.”

— John Steinbeck

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“He loved the sun too much. He loved fire, like me. He saw the light and he loved it more than anyone. There are…

— Amy Zhang

“He liked the thought that his own power would one day be refined into translucence, with no memory of the blood and earth that…

— Jennifer Egan

“Time, it seemed, was not our enemy after all. It was just air and space and hours. Anything worth having was able to withstand…

— Courtney Cole