Chris Martin Quotes

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

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.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

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