David Sedaris Quotes

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy people (although, I've had my moments of that as well). I think it was just years of maybe moving slightly away from it but always coming back to it as the thing that I'm best at.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.