Art Quote by 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

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us…

— 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

“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

“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

“Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to become. That…

— Jaha Knight

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

— Joseph Leo Koerner

“No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a…

— Mark Twain

“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

“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

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“I want to depict the artist's struggle with reality, the sheer effort of creation which goes into every work of art, the blood and…

— Émile Zola