Alexi Zentner Quotes

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Without art there is no hope.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

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

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Art and life are inseparable.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

It's amazing what art can do.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art is a sense of magic.