Art Quote by Luci Shaw

“Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s…

— Carl William Brown

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of…

— Henry Miller

“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can…

— Rebecca West

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

— Audre Lorde

“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first appreciation is a…

— Henry Beston

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an…

— Jean Paul Richter

“We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He…

— C.S. Lewis

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes…

— Howard Nemerov