John Russell Quotes

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Art matters.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

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

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

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

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Art is a sense of magic.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

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.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.