Quotes About Art

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.