Quotes About Art

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.