Sarah Kay Quotes

I love making handmade gifts.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

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?

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have - that's the most inspiring thing. The way you share relationships with the people around you.

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

Normal people do not create art.

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.