Ray Bradbury Quotes

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Art is truth.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

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

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

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.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

When we separate music from life we get art.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

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.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

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.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.