Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

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

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.