Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.