May Sarton Quotes

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

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.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

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.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

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

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Life and art are not two different things.

Without art there is no hope.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

The secret of life is in art.

Art is a sense of magic.

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 was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Art is the triumph over chaos.