Steven Bochco Quotes

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.

When you're trying to create imagery, you're trying to create a feeling or a mood.

Music, the mosaic of the air.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

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

Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.