Pope Paul VI Quotes

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

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.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

Art is not only about angst.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

Art and life are inseparable.

Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.