Transcendent Art Quotes

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many artists and viewers throughout history. Visionary art is one of the primary ways that human contact with higher subtle dimensions gets translated into our communally shared physical dimension.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life

George has left in his songs, in the transcendent beauty of his voice, and in the poetic expression of his soul, the very best of himself.

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.