Nellie McKay Quotes

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.

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.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Art is longer than life.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

Romance can end, but I don't think art really ends, as romantic as that might sound.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

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.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

Art is truth.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

Only art means anything.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

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

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art is such an important part of our culture.