Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

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.

It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

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

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I figured out 'The Sixth Sense' in the first 10 minutes. I still found the movie touching.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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

I just hold out for pieces where I immediately feel an emotional connection with a part.

I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it's always up to the person watching it.

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.

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

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.

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

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.