Julian Barratt Quotes

I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

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

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.