Adoration Quote by Leonard Bernstein

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes…

— Usher

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

— Remy de Gourmont

The arts safeguard our culture.

— Adrian Lester

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

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

— Julia Cameron

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality…

— Austin Osman Spare

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

— Philip Kitcher

There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have…

— Peter London

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

— Anonymous

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche