Art Quote by Willa Cather

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life…

— Willa Cather

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element…

— Willa Cather

“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.”

— Joseph Leo Koerner

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

“Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from – hatred,…

— Terry Pratchett

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”

— Henry James

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Never withhold your art from the world. It may hold the power to heal a heart or be the gift someone has been waiting…

— Joy E. DeKok

“only my art held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt was within…

— Russell Martin

“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and…

— Boris Pasternak

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller