Paul Horn Quotes

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

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.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Life and art are inseparable.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.