The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.