Artistic Persuasion Quotes

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

All writers are propagandists.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.