Maurice Ravel Quotes

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

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

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.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

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