Henry Moore Quotes

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

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.

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

Life without music would be a mistake.