Eduard Hanslick Quotes

Life and art are inseparable.

Art is a sense of magic.

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

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

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.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

Art and life are inseparable.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

There is no art without contemplation.