Eli Broad Quotes

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

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

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

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

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

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

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

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

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

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

The value of art is in the observer.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

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

No – we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

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.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

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