Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together.

I believe people from the film industry, musicians, dancers, artists and writers are all internally connected. The form of expression externally may vary, but we are connected internally.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.

Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II thing, this segmentation of the arts, so lame. It's the laming of the arts.

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

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.