Frank Iero Quotes

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

Art should create an experience.

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.

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.

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

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

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

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

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

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

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

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.