Terry Teachout Quotes

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

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.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

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

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Art and life are inseparable.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.