Quotes About Artistic

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

Allow the courage to create overwhelmed you.

Be Positive. Be Passionate. Be Persistent. Be Poetic.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

He that sings a lasting songThinks in a marrowbone.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.

Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many great artists have said that they constantly try to recapture it.

The contemporary American writer is in no way a part of the social and political scene. He is therefore not muzzled, for no one fears his bite; nor is he called upon to compose. Whatever work he does must proceed from a reckless inner need.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

He [Huxley] once explained that his aim as a novelist was 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay', arguing that the novel should be like a holdall, bursting with opinion and arresting ideas.

oh, it's a penis. They're all masturbating. At high speed, it seems.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

In the first half of the second millennium A.D., a revolutionary form of gambling swept across Asia and Europe. Allowing for infinitely more variation than dice games, capable of artistic embellishment and even educational lessons, playing cards would supplant dice as the favored gambling mechanism to most of the world.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.