Michael Moore Quotes

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.