Andrew Wyeth Quotes

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it really enhances the feeling.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.