Art Quote by W. H. Auden

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour…

— Giles Gilbert Scott

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

— Elizabeth Montagu

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

— Susan Rothenberg

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

— Paulo Coelho

“BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators.”

— Julie Saffrin

“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is…

— Boris Pasternak

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands…

— Thomas de Quincey

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

— Huston Smith

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

— Charles Saatchi

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not…

— C. S. Lewis

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars…

— Chuck Palahniuk