Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to go to peoplewith money and say I don't care about art, all I care about iscommerce; all I really want to do is make money.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.