Bil Keane Quotes

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

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that.

I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don't enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there's no connection to the characters.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.