Quotes About Artistry

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being a writer. So, I don't even think about other people. I'm just interested writing about human beings so if somebody calls and says, 'We'd like you to do it,' I'd say, 'That sounds like a cool idea.'

I'd done plenty of dark stuff and edgy stuff and hardcore stuff, and I kind of found that stuff easy.

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I like to just plug in and play; I don't use a lot of effects.

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.