Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it.

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

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.

I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling always leads the sound!

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.