other's words to describe art...
✦ “Art is the proper task of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
❂ “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher
☽ “Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” — John F. Kennedy
✿ “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” — Pablo Picasso
✦ “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” — Francis Bacon
❂ “Art is a wound turned into light.” — Georges Braque
☀ “To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
☽ “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” — Vincent van Gogh
✦ “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso
✿ “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
☀ “When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision—it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde
❂ “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — Banksy
☽ “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” — Pablo Picasso
✿ “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” — James Whistler
✦ “Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
☀ “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
❂ “Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.” — Louise Bourgeois
☽ “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.” — Mies van der Rohe
✿ “The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
☀ “The earth has music for those who listen.” — George Santayana