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“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”

Men Facts Emotion Cases He Man Judging Essentials Prejudice Anger Pity Appeals

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind”

Emotion Mankind Higher Practicals Appeals Preservation

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.”

Feelings Emotion Doubt Produce Claims Intuition Arguing Intense Appeals Personal Feelings

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.”

Way May Song Language Sound Emotion Expression Eternal Musical Treasure Appeals Operations Subtle Popularity Definite Justified Rifles Musical Expression

Book:Music and morals

Source: Music and morals

“All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.”

Way School Emotion Entertainment Intellect Appeals

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.”

“By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.”

Men Spirit Parent Numbers Emotion Moral Fire Produce Perception Enthusiasm Appeals Conception Closets Eloquence

Author:Kobe Bryant

“There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.”

Men Emotion Clear Psychology Streets He Man Argument Instinct Seeking Intellect Appeals Yield Tactics No Point Unimportant Crude Subordinates Psychological Warfare

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.”

Looks Long Art Made Able Artist Religious Simple Emotion Happened Sentences Appeals Secular Secular Society Religious Art

Author:Bob Colacello