Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Art is the skin of the soul.

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

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 look for characters that speak to something in me.

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

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

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.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

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.

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.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.