Henry Moore Quotes

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

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.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.