Edith Schaeffer Quotes

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

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.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a lot of questions is that part of this job and this life we've chosen is doing personal exploration in front of an audience. In a lot of ways, that's what art is: personal searching with people watching.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

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.