Quotes About Art

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

Whether it is a garden gnome, the sound of Bing Crosby launching into 'White Christmas', the blinking innocent eyes of Bambi or the words of Patience Strong, the kitsch phenomenon is there as strong and recognisable as your mother's face. You seldom if ever have the question, whether this is kitsch or not. If you think it might be, then it is.

Christine and the Queens

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.