Quotes About Experience

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.