Art Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is the objectification of feeling.

— Herman Melville

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who…

— Albert Einstein

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of…

— Louis Althusser

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art…

— Simon Pegg

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

— Guy Debord

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a…

— Anonymous

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

“And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.”

— Viktor Shklovsky