George Edward Woodberry Quotes

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

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.

Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, 'I don't know,' and you go home and do it. He's the most articulate nonverbal person in the world. He doesn't say a word, and you know exactly what it means.

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Art is the skin of the soul.

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

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.