Art & Creativity Sayings

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

The Creator's wisdom is seen in the smallest insect as well as in the greatest elephant.

The greatest art is to conceal art.

The greater part of the world, because it despises the Word of God, despises also the whole of true religion.

I should be glad if I could spend my whole life in reading and writing.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It is not in the power of any created being to make things true or false, but only to make us think them so.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The art of concluding from experience and observation consists in evaluating probabilities.

The most beautiful part of the human frame is the eye; and yet it is the most liable to disease.

The universe is far more complex and wondrous than we can imagine.

I have ever esteemed it a part of my duty to make the world acquainted with what I have done.

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other.

I would rather be remembered for my wisdom than for my beauty.

I write to you from my bed, where I am as usual, very busy.

Why do you separate the good from the evil? Is it not I who created both?