John Dewey Quotes

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.