Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Quotes

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

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.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.