Irving Stone Quotes

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

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 great stimulus to life.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

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

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.