Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

The secret of life is in art.

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

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Life and art are inseparable.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Art is science in the flesh.

Life and art are not two different things.

Art is the child of Nature.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

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

Art is a sense of magic.

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

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.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Great art picks up where nature ends.