Mickey Hart Quotes

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

Great art inspires great art.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of [a work], outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some works of genius would be sure to miss appreciation. Their very novelty would make them repulsive until the public had learned the new language in which their author spoke.

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

I never set out to be a groundbreaking artist in the sense of doing something that's never been done before. I set out to make stuff that communicated quickly and effectively, playing off of advertising, pop art, and pop culture.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

We think it's a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That's one of the greatest things an artist in any field could know: that you've touched the mind of another artist.

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.