Moby Quotes

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

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

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

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

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

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

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

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

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

All art is about appealing to emotion.