Artistic Mood Quotes

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

With 'Opening Credit,' we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

It only takes me about four days to write an album. It don't take that long. I just gotta have the feeling. If I don't have the feeling, it's a different story. I gotta be in the mood.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression