Jane Fonda Quotes

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

You’re got to be angry—of course it helps if you can draw pretty well.

I just try to sing every song with sincerity.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

Find a way to express what moves you.

I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.