Jim McKelvey Quotes

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

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

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

Art is spiritual.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Art is a sense of magic.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Art is not only about angst.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.