Robert Musil Quotes

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

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

The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.

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.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

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

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.