James Hillman Quotes

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

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

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

Art is spiritual.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

Art is the skin of the soul.