Quotes About Art

I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

'Apartamento,' a magazine out of Spain but written in English, is one of my favorite magazines.

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. - Unrequited

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness.

I write because I love. I love because I write.

Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

so the poem hurt you.it was supposed to.

Music is the emotions that words can not express.

I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine

As her lips changed the geometry, Her smile turned to poetry.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.