Quotes About Art

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

Dance should touch people.

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive.

My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it.

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.

Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.

It might be true that we all like to be entertained, but it's also true that we all like to be equally touched by a film.

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

I don't really like reading: I like seeing and touching images.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.

I don't like touching things that are the curatorial flavor of the month.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

I've always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living.

Comedy is tough. It is a serious business.

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

It is very tough to make a short film. It's like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel. You can't afford to faff around; you can't indulge. You have to get to the point.

I had difficulty in grasping how music was made for films. It was a huge learning curve and the toughest phase of my life.