Charles Baudelaire Quotes

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story. I'm not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

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

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.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

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.

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

I always know when a song is good or close to finished. When I sing it, it makes me feel the emotion. My tears will start flowing or I'll start laughing. I'll start feeling whatever intensity or emotion was the seed of that song.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.