Auguste Renoir Quotes

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

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

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

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

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Art is an experience, not an object.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Art should create an experience.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.