Peter Marino Quotes

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

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

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

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.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.

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

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

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

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.

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.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.