“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.” MenGivingMindArtLawJoyValuesGrowthStudyInfluenceHigherArt IsSightCaughtIntellectEvery ManSensesObservationHintsScrapRefining Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.” ArtRealitySpiritualMusicForeverEternalArt IsInstinctSensesMediumsAnalysisEchoesCraving Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis
“Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?” PeopleIfsArtFacesPlanetsArt IsToolsSensesHealAppeals Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'” MenShouldArtSoulArtistNamesTermNaturePerceptionArt IsSacredMereSensesPerceiveAccurateImitationVeilsReproduction Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
“But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.” ArtPoetryObjectsArt IsSensesObjectivesEmploymentSensual Author:William Carlos Williams