Max Richter Quotes

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Art is an investigation.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

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.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

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.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.