Quotes About Artistic

I've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.