Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Art matters.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

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

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

Art is truth.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?