Aesthetic Effect Quotes

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.