Jessica Stockholder Quotes

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is about feeling.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Music is how you feel.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

Music and fashion complement one another when combined.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

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

I'm only interested in poetry.

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.