Quotes About Artistry

Creativity never disappoints".

Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?

Live a colourful life. If you can't, develop your own Photoshop and colour it!

Be an artist in everything you do.

Go out of societal conformity to see and create uplifting beauty.

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.