Quotes About Art

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find both satisfying in different ways.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

I've never written a happy love song.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.'

'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.