Quotes About Art

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

All art requires courage.

It's a plié. You do it on all the positions. It's very good for dramatic moments.

I've multiplied, I'm 2. He was part of me he came out of me, he took a part of me He took me apart. I'm 2, he's my art, no, he's separate. He art one. I'm not done & I'm still one. I sing of my son. I've multiplied. My heart's in 2, half to him & half to you, who are also a part of him, & you & he & I make trio of kind congruity.

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

The most horrifying thing about art is its honesty

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Annie Barrows

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hour-glass--all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

Nunca he escrito para que sea bonito o para hacer una frase bella. Lo que yo escojo es la frase justa

Depuis vingt ans, je note « 58 » dans mes projets de livre. C'est le texte toujours manquant. Toujours remis. Le trou inqualifiable.

J'ai voulu faire de cette passion une Å"uvre d'art dans ma vie, ou plutôt cette liaison est devenue passion parce que je l'ai voulue Å"uvre d'art (Michel Foucault : le souverain bien, c'est de faire de sa vie une Å"uvre d'art).

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Think of the task not in linear terms—tracing a direct line from point A to point B—but rather as a cycle: think, draw, look, rethink, redraw. Likewise, don't envision the mind telling the pencil what to do; instead, allow a conversation to develop between eye and hand,

Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.

A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, ìA man can live without art, but not without culture.

Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.

An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached.