Herb Alpert Quotes

Art is the great stimulus to life.

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.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

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 essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Art is forever.

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

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I need art around me always.