Kailash Kher Quotes

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

You have to find a sound that reflects what our souls feel like inside, how our bodies actually feel. That's why we made our own beats. We couldn't find a producer who could give us the feeling to match our lyrics.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.

I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.