Jack Gantos Quotes

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

Art is a sense of magic.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.