Bruno Walter Quotes

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to the public, to the actors, to the artist - to give something that makes life the paradise it can be. Life can be a paradise. Still, I believe that. Even if there is Trump, there can be a paradise.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.