Oscar Wilde Quotes

Music inspires me.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it to mean anything. You can't intellectualize it. It's like why movies are cool. It's a combination of pictures and design and acting and music can create an experience that is outside of the experience that you can actually have in reality, which gets to my motion picture philosophy. People are like, 'aren't you trying to make the movies as real as you can?'

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

I love music, it's always been a big passion for me.

Music is one big thing to me.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the