Eli Broad Quotes

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

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

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

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

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

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

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

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

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

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.

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

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.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.