Herman Melville Quotes

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

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

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is truth.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

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

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

But of works of art little can be said.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.