Margaret Anderson Quotes

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Artists need to express.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Make good art.

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.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.