Quotes About Art

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

Where words leave off, music begins.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.