Analysis Quote by Hugh Reginald Haweis

“What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal of eternity…

— Muriel Barbery

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and…

— Joseph Conrad

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and…

— Carl Jung

“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and…

— Joseph Conrad

“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art,…

— Walker Percy

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings, statues, poems,…

— Leo Tolstoy

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much…

— Ursula Goodenough

It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out…

— Louise Glück

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality…

— Susanne Katherina Langer