Quotes About Art

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Publishing is not my world.

It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog.

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.

'Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies' is a piece that I did around the time that I was very frustrated and angry with the fact that the U.S., where I live, had decided to pull itself into another war. I was really angry.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

I feel like I pull inspiration, in general, from how I feel on a day.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.

If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.