“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.” ArtStatesAlivePaintingArt IsMiracleSacredConstantVisualsRenewalVisual ArtExaltation Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.” ArtUsePurposeArtistDealsFashionObjectsSeriousHigherArt IsSacredSevereEmployed Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.” ArtMagicEventsMaterialsArt IsSacredNotionPossessionWoundsIncarnationOverloadSpillingMagic Words Author:Joyelle McSweeney
“We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.” MindArtStatesImaginationEffortImagineObjectsMaterialsArt IsMathematicsSacredSymbolsState Of MindEpisodesMedieval Author:Kenneth Clark
“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.” MayArtImportantSelfLyingSongStepsPracticeArt IsRootsFunctionInstrumentsSacredEntertainmentRecognitionCommunionDance Steps Book:No More Secondhand Art Source: No More Secondhand Art
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'” MenShouldArtSoulArtistNamesTermNaturePerceptionArt IsSacredMereSensesPerceiveAccurateImitationVeilsReproduction Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
“All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.” ArtMomentsArtistHoursArt IsBlessedSacredImpulseSacred Moments Author:Caspar David Friedrich