Quotes About Art

I can sit down and vomit on the keys but it's my vomit. it's better than sitting in a room with 3 or 4 people and their pianos. this is my piano and it is better than theirs.

anyhow, I'm now using the knife the reader sent me to clean my fingernails. better this than ripping it deep into somebody's guts. I prefer to do that with the poem.

La poesía dice demasiado en demasiado poco tiempo; la prosa dice demasiado poco y se toma demasiado tiempo.

we are the sickest of the breed--as fine museums--great art-- generations of knowledge--are all forgotten as we find profundity in being an asshole--

ah, christ, what a CREW: more poetry, always more POETRY

Crear arte significa estar terriblemente solo para siempre.

Scrivere poesie non è difficile. Difficile è viverle.

And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.

I am going to paint one day and when I do I will show the world what color means.

Chopin's bones are dead and they are shooting from the housetops and I sit in a dirty noisy kitchen in hell writing to Henry Miller.

There is nothing more magic and beautiful than lines forming across paper. It's all there is. It's all there ever was.

there's music in everything, even defeat—but

play the piano she says it's not good for you not to write.

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

poetry it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems. it's not for everybody either to write it or even to read it.

he gabbles about the Arts until I hate the Arts

the difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable

I've got to get back to the typewriter, I thought. Art takes discipline. Any asshole can chase a skirt. I drank, thinking about it. At

There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face.

the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after that is to write another.

Only assholes talk about writing

Ho ricevuto un sacco di lettere di persone che dicono che i miei libri gli hanno salvato il culo. Ma io non li ho scritti per quello, li ho scritti per salvare il mio, di culo.

Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass

Find something you love - and let it kill you