Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

I believe that art has incredible power.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Without art there is no hope.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.