Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Art is the objectification of feeling.