Aberjhani Quotes

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".

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

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater power.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.