Sincere Art Quotes

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

I believe in reflecting honesty and reflecting reality in my music and making music that touches people emotionally - music that can bring us together.

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

I'm an emotional person. I'm not going to deny that. If I feel a certain way, I'll express it on the track.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.

When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anything specifically. It's just trying to capture a little piece of your soul - even if it's a really ugly part.

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

If it don't touch my soul then I can't listen to it.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.