Ruth Bernhard Quotes

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

I only do what comes from the heart.

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

...uncorny, human sized drama

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.