Jeremy Podeswa Quotes

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Art is spiritual.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Movies are my bread and butter and my inherent passion.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.