Edith Schaeffer Quotes

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

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.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

I need art around me always.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

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

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

Life should be art, right?

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.