Lorrie Moore Quotes

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

The artist is called a creator.

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

I paint my own reality.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Music is an experience, not a science.

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

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

My album to me is something, but anyone who buys it, it's whatever it is to them. I don't like telling people what specifics are of the record, because that could ruin it as an experience for someone else.

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.