Albert II, Prince of Monaco Quotes

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

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

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?'

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

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

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 guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

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

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

I need art around me always.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.