Quotes About Art

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

To write is to give meaning to suffering.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

I write in the studio.

I really hate to write.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

I feel a burden if I don't write.

I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a whole other thing. I'm going for what it sounds like right away, so it may not even look good on the page.