Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.
When I look at acts, I look at the worldwide potential. And what travels wide is melody.
Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.
If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.
You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.
When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.
All I really want is for people to really get what I do and connect with the songs and find meaning in them.
Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.
When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
I think the audience is getting it right, you know what I mean? And that's kind of rare when the artist feels like their audience understand them. But I feel like people are understanding exactly what I'm going for. And that's awesome.
I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.
Creed's sound is my sound.
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
