Randall Jarrell Quotes

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I just love music, in general. I love art.

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.