Quotes About Artistry

A poet is a painter of the soul.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Every man is a poet at heart.

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

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

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

Art is a gun and medicine at the same time.