Powerful Art Quotes

Music, at its very best, is dangerous.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

I am thrilled to be working with Alex Sanchez as the artist on 'Katana.' His work is wildly eclectic, exciting and powerful, yet slyly humorous, which is a perfect match for Katana.

Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly powerful but is always going to create waves.

I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem in itself, but one which I shall achieve.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

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

I like my work to speak. Actually, I would like my work to scream!

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought 'This Nation's Saving Grace' when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.