David Hume Quotes

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I'm a lover and consumer of beauty.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working out a lot. I’ve started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I’ve never been closer to that.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted