Joseph Joubert Quotes

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Find a way to express what moves you.