Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes

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.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Music tells no truths.

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.

I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own and make their own assumptions.

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.