David Grinspoon Quotes

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art is spiritual.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Art is the skin of the soul.

Art and life are inseparable.

Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

Art is a way of life.

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

We have art in order not to die of life.

Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because they're using different parts of their brains. Parents who care should insist on that.