Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

The greatness of a culture can be found in it's art

Art simply expresses things that cannot be put in words, it’s a conversation for your eyes, and it makes you look at things differently. That’s just wonderful!

to understand a people, you need to wade into their culture. It’s culture that tells their tale. And music is culture.

"The Catholic writer understands the necessary relationship between truth and beauty, which is not mere social convention or cultural accident but an essential form of human knowledge--intuitive, holistic, and experiential. Art is a form of knowing--distinct and legitimate--rooted in feeling and delight--that discovers, in the words of Jacques Maritain, "The splendor of the secrets of being radiating into intelligence." (34).

Any art is a concentrated feeling of love elevated to a world view and translated into an artistic language of symbols.

Art is the signature of man.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art was, or should be, a key to the treasures of mystical experience, a means of expressing through sub-creation man's unity with the primary Creation of which he is part. It could also, in its highest form, be an expression of the homesickness of the soul in spiritual exile, a longing for that eternal realm for which the soul begins to ache.

The spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Art is here taken to mean knowledge realized in action.