Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

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.

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

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

Art is a sense of magic.

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

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

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Art is science made clear.

I believe in art.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

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

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.