Quotes About Art

For me, music is my art and what I have dedicated my life to. For fashion designers, clothing is art. Just as much as a piece of music that I might write is a piece of art. Being able to merge the two industries on stage or at an event is really fun.

I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It's a story.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music of language always available to me.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

I think anyone who creates anything, whether it's yourself as a writer, anyone - when you finish something, it's gone from being just your thing and it's out there, it's a great release.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.