Jeff Tweedy Quotes

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I really believe in the power of music.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.