Ray Conniff Quotes

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

What gives my art the most meaning is when I can connect with others through it. When people say that my music has helped them, or it makes them feel good, or it inspires them, that is what gives my art lasting meaning to me.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next to Normal' is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to do when I started to write 'Next to Normal.'

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected people, made them laugh or cry. To me, that was more important than having my face on some billboard.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.