Allen Ginsberg Quotes

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

Art connects everyone.

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.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

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.

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

Art is an investigation.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

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.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.