Moby Quotes

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.

Painting is another form of thinking.

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

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

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

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.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.

It is the greatest reward for me to share my story, my art, and my work. And people receiving that and being thankful and grateful, it once again resonates deep within because it reminds me that I am so much bigger than being a drag performer.

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.