Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
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.
Art is a sense of magic.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Art is the objectification of feeling.