Willa Cather Quotes

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Art without life is a poor affair.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.