Sarah Churchwell Quotes

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

You need the art in order to love the life.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I believe in art.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.