James Arthur Quotes

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

Dance should touch people.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

A picture is a poem without words.

Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.