Zaytoven Quotes

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

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.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

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

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

Music is only good sometimes.

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.