Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

There is creation in the eye.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

People's lives do not have to be drab and dreary and wrapped in old newspapers. The deserve something for the soul and noble visions.

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.