Claude Monet Quotes

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

Music is an experience, not a science.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.