Quotes About Art

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Rattigan wrote some very good plays.

I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.

I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.

The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

We became the songs we wrote.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.