William Wordsworth Quotes

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

Art is the skin of the soul.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

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.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

All men are poets at heart.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.