David Hume Quotes

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

If it's music, I love it.

I really love color.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Even the ears must dance.

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel.

If you hear a song and you like it, you like it.

I think everyone just likes what they like. And fashion is something that I have found a lot of 'like' in.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.