Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone…

— Albert Einstein

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

— Isadora Duncan

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art…

— Walter Isaacson

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity…

— Roger Fry

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the…

— Moby

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion…

— John F. Carlson

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell