Quotes About Art

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

To grow a song, you must plant a note.

There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Well, your opinion is as good as hers, I think," said Elphaba. "That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

To grow a melody? You can't grow a melody on purpose," she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental.

Oh, the accident necessary to fiction!

Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind—well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get.

It would have made a nice painting, were someone to choose something as lowly as that to study. Another story, a story written in oils rather than one painted on porcelain. But to be most effective, the faces of the children would need to be painted in a blur, the way all children's faces truly are. For they blur as they run; they blur as they grow and change so fast; and they blur to keep us from loving them too deeply, for their protection, and also for ours.

Lo que pervive en la memoria de la gente es más verdadero que el arte de un poeta para contarlo. En la memoria popular, el mal siempre antecede al bien.

mori that time must also catch him at his crime: Painting

Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.