Andrea Bocelli Quotes

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations - to look into the economic and political underpinnings of the institutions, individuals and groups who share in the control of power.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.