Quotes About Art

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.