Hedda Sterne Quotes

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

The object of art is to give life shape.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.