C. S. Lewis Quotes

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I usually think in terms of music.

Art is the skin of the soul.

Music is all about creativity.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.