5 Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes on Art

Ralph Vaughan Williams quotes on art

2. Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Our drama and poetry, like our laws and our constitution, have evolved by accident while we thought we were doing something else, and so it will be with music. The composer must not shut himself up and think about art, he must live with his fellows and make his art an expression of the whole life of the community - if we seek for art we shall not find it.

3. Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties - of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?

6. I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.

10. Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

11. There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.