Chuck Klosterman Quotes

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

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

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.