Henry Fielding Quotes

The secret of life is in art.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Art is science in the flesh.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Life and art are not two different things.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Art and life are inseparable.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

Life and art are inseparable.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.