Art Power Quotes

Art is power. Art influences the mind, the nerves, the feelings, the soul. It carries messages of hope, hostility, derision and moral rebuke. It can fight material and spiritual evils and can transmit the ideals of a community now living, long past or soon to be born.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

I believe that art has incredible power.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.

On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.

Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.