Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Music has influenced my life and is one of the most treasured things for me. It speaks a universal language and for me, it is extremely important to stay connected to it.

I know music is just powerful in itself and to have someone say the words that I sat down and wrote changed their life or made them feel a certain way, that hits something in you.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

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

I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.