Quotes About Art

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

My father writes through clothes.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

The desire to write grows with writing.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.