Quotes About Sensory

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

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.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Seeing beautiful art is like feeling kisses from angels all over your face.

She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.