The Power Of Art Quotes

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now. — Herb Alpert

Music is an outburst of the soul. — Frederick Delius

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. — Denis Donoghue

Mind power is my art ... ... so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece. — Stephen Richards

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. — Robert McKee

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation ... kitsch — Theodor Adorno

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. — Wassily Kandinsky

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet. — Terence Koh

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing. — Austin Nichols

a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"]. — Catie Marron

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance. — Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it. — Saul Williams

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man. — Ruth Sawyer

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not. — Jeff Tweedy

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties. — Orison Swett Marden

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. — Boris Pasternak

You may be good looking/
But you're not a piece of art. — Marina And The Diamonds

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want. — Ansel Elgort

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. — Jeanne Moreau

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. — Dan Brown

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power. — Indira Gandhi

Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. — Marty Rubin

Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal. — Ernest Holmes

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient. — Eliphas Levi

[children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space. — Peter Tompkins

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. — J. A. Hadfield

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might. — Madeleine L'Engle

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best — Otto Von Bismarck

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power — Robert Greene

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. — John Hersey

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. — Vladimir Nabokov

Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist. — Debasish Mridha

The power of art can open our minds. — Edmund Capon

The power of art is the power of truth. — Julian Beck

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future. — Lionel Suggs

We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs. — Eric Samuel Timm

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. — Sun Tzu

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms. — Hermann Hesse

The art of power, my love, is making people give you something for nothing and think they are being rewarded in the process. — Anne Leonard

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. — Herbert Marcuse

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. — Lionel Trilling

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries. — Marina Abramovic

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Around the mighty master came
The marvels which his pencil wrought,
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Only tyrannies understand the power of art. — Ronald Harwood

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. — Henry A. Kissinger

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire. — John Landis Mason

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings. — Daisaku Ikeda

A richer present I design,
A finished form, of work divine,
Surpassing all the power of art;
A thinking head, a grateful heart. — Mary Barber

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. — Armand Hammer

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. — Alan W. Watts

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery

One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,
it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight. — Toba Beta

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? — Gregory Maguire

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark. — Philip Pullman

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. — John Ruskin

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone. — Robert Hewison

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. — Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.. — Pablo Casals

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone. — Helio Gracie

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes. — Jeffrey Lewis

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination. — Debasish Mridha

Power doesn't always roar ... The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The power of any art is limited — William Wordsworth

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. — Alfred Adler

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred. — Seneca The Younger