Analogue Quote by Thomas Merton

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps…

— William James

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

— Serj Tankian

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly…

— Gustave Moreau

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when…

— Ken Robinson

When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

— Daniel Bell

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression…

— Howard Carter

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted…

— Ellen Dissanayake

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense…

— Jeff Koons

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety…

— Elliot W. Eisner

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

— Miguel de Unamuno