John Ruskin Quotes

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

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

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I like any music I can feel.

I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.

I just see potential in things that aren't there and how it's going to make you feel. Like, if it makes me feel a certain way, I try and create the vibe of how that felt to me. And try and create it for someone else.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

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.