Randall Jarrell Quotes

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.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Only art means anything.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

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

Art is such an important part of our culture.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

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.

When we separate music from life we get art.

Life and art are inseparable.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

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.

Art is the highest form of hope.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.