Andrew Garfield Quotes

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

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

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.