Herbert Spencer Art Quotations

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.