“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.” MindArtSometimesStatesCommonWonderExerciseSkillsNormalHighestStandardsArt IsRefuseSatisfiedJudgementDestructiveWorks Of ArtState Of MindSensibilityIrrationalInexplicableNormalityNaturalistClassicistsState Of Wonder Author:Herbert Read
“I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.” IfsWayBelieveArtImportantI BelieveCan DoImaginationVisionArt IsRelySensibility Author:Mary Oliver
“Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.” ArtArt IsSensibilityObserversCalculatingCraftsmanUnderstatement Author:Sara Genn
“The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.” GivingMayArtFormPurposeGivenPleasureOffersArt IsTake TimeSensibilityPurpose Of Art Author:Susan Sontag
“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.” ArtStillsCountrySeemsLyingPassionSpecialDyingBenefitsArt IsOrganizationPatientAll TimeGrantsProvidenceSensibilityShieldsInvincibleContemplative Author:George Sand
“I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off there, you make it harder on yourself as a director. And it's fun to work that out with the actors. I don't think there's any magic to directing actors. It's very instinctual. Working with actors is really one of my favorite creative moments of the whole process, and the most fun, because it's collaborative. I spend a lot of time rehearsing. I'm very rehearsal-oriented, probably because I have some background in theater. I like knowing what will work beforehand.” ThinkingArtImportantMomentsFunCreativeMagicArt IsMy FavoriteSensibility Author:Richard Linklater
“By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.” ThinkingWorldArtFashionLuckyArt IsConcernedExcitingIndependenceIncrediblesSensibilityRolling StonesPop Art Author:Tony Shafrazi