Quotes About Art

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.