Rebecca Makkai Quotes

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

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

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

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

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

I believe in art.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

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.

Life and art are inseparable.

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