Quotes About Art

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

Being a writer makes you immortal.

My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.