Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
– Roger Ebert
Tag: art
Quotable 463
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
– Cynthia Ozick
Quotable 446
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
Quotable 441
Writing is a craft in the way that carpentry is a craft: There’s art to it, sure, and a certain inspiration required of it, definitely, but for the most part you’re just sawing and sanding and getting dust in your eyes.
– Megan Garber
Quotable 381
Poetry as an art form gives us practice caring about others.
– Tracy K. Smith
Quotable 371
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
– Paul Simon
Quotable 330
Art is a summoning of attention. To create it requires the highest directed focus, as does experiencing it.
– Sven Birkerts
Quotable 293
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 290
There is nothing new in art except talent.
– Anton Chekhov
Quotable 283
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
– Ann Patchett