Oscar de la Renta Quotes

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

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.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)