E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

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

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

I believe that art has incredible power.

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.