"A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight." ~ John James Audubon
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ~ Michelangelo
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple-- to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. ~ Craig Raine
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. ~ James Bailey
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. ~ Raymond Chandler
Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. ~ Thomas Merton
All artists are two-headed calves. ~ Truman Capote
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be. ~ Al Alvarez
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. ~ Rebecca West
Through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. ~ Oscar Wilde
The object of art is to give life shape. ~ Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950