Art Quote by Marilynne Robinson Download Open image “Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.” — Marilynne Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artists People Cherish Cherish Artists Culture Cultures Cultures Cherish Looks People People say
As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Cultures in general are led by people who make decisions that are more geared toward what they want to see than what the culture… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Sandra Bowden Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
