Quotes About Art

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.

If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive, an open hand: it has roads, detours, destinations; a heart line, a head line; morals and money come into it. Where the fist excludes and stuns, the open hand can touch and encompass a great deal in its travels.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical

And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.   I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Sure, marriage is self expression, but if only my art, my writing, isn't just a mere sublimation of my sexual desires which will run dry once I get married. If only I can find him ... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

What I fear most I think, is the death of the imagination.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to burn away all the peripherals

morrer é uma arte, como tudo o mais. nisso sou excepcional. desse jeito faço parecer infernal. desse jeito faço parecer real. vão dizer que tenho vocação

I wonder if art divorced from normal and conventional living is as vital as art combined with living: in a word, would marriage sap my creative energy and annihilate my desire for written and pictorial expression which increases with this depth of unsatisfied emotion ... or would I achieve a fuller expression in art as well as in the creation of children?

At first I didn't see what the trouble was. It wasn't a mirror at all, but a picture.

How clear, how lovely. Now just write the damn thing.

it gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything.

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The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. 'Kindness' by Sylvia Plath

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't. –

Try to get into a story. Forget self and give blood to creation.

You have left a momentary part of you which I will work into something.

Then, grubbing over supper, with the badly begun poem like an albatross round the neck of the day, nothing else.

I do not like to think of all the things, familiar, useful and worthy things, I have never put into a poem.

See each scene deep, love it like a complex faceted jewel. Get the light, shadow & vivid color. Set scene the night before. Sleep on it, write it in the morning.

For me," she wrote, "poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose." Throughout

my inspiration is paintings and not music when I go to some other art form . . . I see these things very clearly.

O vase of acid, It is love you are full of.