Sara Sheridan Quotes

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise, it doesn't interest me much.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

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'.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. It's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. It's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. I feel like I've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because I don't want to become an embittered asshole.

There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.