Ezra Pound Quotes

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.

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.

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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 goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

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

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

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

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

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

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

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.