Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Life and art are inseparable.

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

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

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?