Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

The purpose of art is delectation.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

Music takes us where words cannot.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

grievance does not make for great art.

the one universal form of art is music.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of