Sadie Jones Quotes

I need art around me always.

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

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

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

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.