Quotes on Art
“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”
Ray Bradbury, Art
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
Neil Gaiman, Art
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Art
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Neil Gaiman, Art
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art, Happiness
“Every video I see I’m as bad as hell.”
King Von, Art
“When I say, ‘Let me focus,’ that was just me talking to the audience. I was talking to the audience. See, I was daydreaming in the car or some sh*t. Now, folks and I see what’s goin’ on. Oh, I’m gonna ride this n*gga. You see what I’m saying?”
King Von, Life, Art
“Give positive vibes out even though what we rappin’ about is really just entertainment right now. It’s just music.”
King Von, Goals, Art, Music
"I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that."
BTS: RM, Love, Art
“Baby, you smart. I want you to film me taking a shower.”
DJ Khaled, Art
“Another one.”
DJ Khaled, Art
“When I turn in my list, obviously every record was important to me. I didn’t just put records on there to put records on there. I was excited that “All I Do Is Win” could go on there because you hear it at the end of the game and that represents victory. That’s undeniable. You can’t hate on that, it’s impossible.”
DJ Khaled, Art
“Another one, no. Another two, drop two singles at a time.”
DJ Khaled, Art
“The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Art
“The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Art
“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
Johnny Depp, Art
“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.”
Johnny Depp, Art
“I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
Johnny Depp, Art
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
Clint Eastwood, Art
It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
Clint Eastwood, Art
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint Eastwood, Art
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Clint Eastwood, Art
Every story has its demands.
Clint Eastwood, Art
I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
Clint Eastwood, Art
I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
Clint Eastwood, Art
I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.
Clint Eastwood, Art, Goals
"Daddy is a singer, performer, artiste. Mommy has so many talents I can’t even begin to name them."
Kim Kardashian, Art
"I play into the perception of me, but it’s not really me."
Kim Kardashian, Art
"I’m kind of shocked I’m getting a fashion award when I’m naked most of the time."
Kim Kardashian, Art
“Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.”
Kevin Gates, Music, Art
“The things that are most difficult for me to put into words and speak about, I put into my music. I’m just super passionate about my craft and super passionate about what I do.”
Kevin Gates, Music, Art
“I’m able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.”
Will Ferrell, Art
“Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren’t comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.”
Will Ferrell, Art
“I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.”
Will Ferrell, Art
“That’s what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy – something that’s completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”
Will Ferrell, Art
“I think people don’t understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.”
Will Ferrell, Art
“I just had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would’ve had a different reception. One of them told me, “Hey, man. You need to bring it out again.” And I said, “Hey, it’s cool. It is what it is.””
Will Ferrell, Art
“I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it’s essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it’s a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.”
Will Ferrell, Art
“I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it’s not so much trying to be funny, it’s trying to be real in a messed-up context. That’s comedy to me.”
Will Ferrell, Art, Happiness
“I never put too much pressure on myself when I’m the central thing, just because I don’t think I could handle it mentally. I haven’t really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.”
Will Ferrell, Art, Goals
“A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.”
Will Ferrell, Art, Goals
“When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn’t hold back. Why get there and play it safe?”
Will Ferrell, Art, Goals, Success
“In filmmaking circles, there is a simple axiom that describes the structure of a great character journey: somebody wants something badly, and goes for it, against all odds. (Another variation is, a person falls into a hole, and tries to get out.) If you think about any movie you’ve ever liked, any character you’ve ever rooted for, it’s because they wanted something you could relate to and they struggled, risking life and limb, to achieve it. What’s true about movies is also true about life: You tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Art
“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
Victor Hugo, Art, Nature
“Another story must begin!”
Victor Hugo, Art
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, Art
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf, Art
“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Virginia Woolf, Art
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Art
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
Virginia Woolf, Art, Belief
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Art, Goals, Life
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Sex, Art
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Virginia Woolf, Sex, Art
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
Virginia Woolf, Sex, Art
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Sex, Art
"Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going."
Macho Man, Art, Life
"I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good."
Macho Man, Art, Life
"The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for."
Macho Man, Art
"Wrestling is fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't walk all over anyone or everybody will walk all over you."
Macho Man, Art
"Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life."
Macho Man, Art
"There are no tough guys in wrestling."
Macho Man, Art
"Every sport has its own cast of characters."
Macho Man, Art
“We’re the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what’s that next level.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you’d punch ’em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn’t work out.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“I’d like to be the John Wayne of the ’90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“Everybody’s out there wrestling like a robot.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“When the script for ‘The Wrestler’ kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, ‘No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn’t a good actor,’ whatever Hollywood thinks of me.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.”
Hulk Hogan, Art, Mistakes
"I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes—it's about all kinds of change.”
Karl Lagerfeld, Art
“This is the Manifesto of Little Monster:
There is something heroic about the way my fans operate their cameras. So precisely, so intricately and so proudly. Like Kings writing the history of their people, is their prolific nature that both creates and procures what will later be percieved as the kingdom. So the real truth about Lady Gaga fans, my little monsters, lies in this sentiment: They are the Kings. They are the Queens. They write the history of the kingdom and I am something of a devoted Jester. It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or the lie I should say, for which we kill. We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of who we percieve ourselves to be or rather to become, in the future.
When you are lonely,
I will be lonely too.
And this is the fame.”
Lady Gaga, Success, Life, Art
“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”
Lady Gaga, Art
“We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart.”
- Lady Gaga- 10/22/10
Lady Gaga, Art
“I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.”
Lady Gaga, Art
“So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks!”
Lady Gaga, Art
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”
Lady Gaga, Art
“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
Lady Gaga, Art
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
Lady Gaga, Art
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.”
Lady Gaga, Art
“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Art
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach, Art, Work
“You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art
“I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art
“Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don’t get it out there, if people don’t know about it, you have nothing.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art
“Everything has style, everything`s a little bit larger than life and done with mischief.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
John Lennon, Art
“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it.”
John Lennon, Art
“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.”
John Lennon, Art
“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”
John Lennon, Art, Goals
“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”
Stephen King, Art
“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
Stephen King, Art
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Stephen King, Art
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
Stephen King, Art
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
Stephen King, Art
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
Stephen King, Art
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
Stephen King, Art
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
Stephen King, Art
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Stephen King, Art
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
Stephen King, Art
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
Stephen King, Art
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
Stephen King, Art
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
Stephen King, Art
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Stephen King, Art
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art, Happiness
“If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.”
Margaret Mead, Art
“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.”
Margaret Mead, Art, Belief, Music, Love
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost, Art
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Robert Frost, Art
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Robert Frost, Art
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Robert Frost, Art
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost, Art
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
Robert Frost, Art
“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
Robert Frost, Art, Goals
“I got booed off the stage one time. This was in a University in Florida. The students didn't know that I had to come back out 6 more times, because I was hosting the show. They just thought that I was a comedian opening the show.”
Theo Von, Art
“I didn't know all my friends were damn sex offenders, until Hollywood told me that they were.
Theo Von, Art
“Howie Mandel is my favorite. He's so friendly, and he's a family man. For a lot of celebrities, to keep a genuineness about them, I think, can be tough, but he really seems to work hard to do that.”
Theo Von, Art
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were ‘sure’ of finding shirts.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness, Art
“I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.”
Frida Kahlo, Love, Art
“My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It’s not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can’t.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“A despair which no words can describe. I’m still eager to live. I’ve started to paint again. A little picture to give to Dr. Farill on which I’m working with all my love. I feel uneasy about my painting.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“Painting completed my life.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn’t say otherwise.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I warn you that in this picture I am painting of Diego there will be colors which even I am not fully acquainted with. Besides, I love Diego so much I cannot be an objective speculator of him or his life.”
Frida Kahlo, Art, Love
“Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I paint flowers to prevent them from dying.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“They are so damn ‘intellectual’ and rotten that I can’t stand them anymore…I would rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those ‘artistic’ bitches of Paris.”
Frida Kahlo, Art
“Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my 'Treatise Of Human Nature'. It fell dead-born from the press.”
David Hume, Art
"A word is dead when it’s been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. But a book is only the heart’s portrait — every page a pulse."
Letter to Elizabeth Holland
Emily Dickinson, Art
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?"
Letter to Thomas Higginson
Emily Dickinson, Art
“I sketch the faces upside down because it’s like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“The people that can’t sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can’t make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.”
Stevie Nicks, Art, Happiness
“Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn’t go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That’s why I’m who I am today, because I didn’t leave. And I think I made the right choice.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“I wouldn’t like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can’t be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can’t write.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“[Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.”
Katharine Hepburn, Art
“To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.”
Katharine Hepburn, Art, Sex
“My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.”
Katharine Hepburn, Art
“Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
Katharine Hepburn, Art
“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.”
Helen Keller, Art, Happiness
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
Helen Keller, Art, Happiness
"The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange."
Walt Whitman, Intelligence/Wisdom, Art
"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for."
Walt Whitman, Art, Life
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
Walt Whitman, Art
"Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It’s about character first. It’s about the story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the more real someone is, the further you can go either way with them."
Ricky Gervais, Art
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
Andy Warhol, Art
"I believe in low lights and trick mirrors."
Andy Warhol, Art
"I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
Andy Warhol, Art
"Beauty is a sign of intelligence."
Andy Warhol, Art, Intelligence/Wisdom
"You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things."
Andy Warhol, Art
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
Andy Warhol, Art
"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Andy Warhol, Wealth, Art
"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want."
Andy Warhol, Wealth, Art
"Art is what you can get away with."
Andy Warhol, Art
"For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets."
Audre Lorde, Society, Sex, Art
"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up."
James Baldwin, Art
"You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."
James Baldwin, Art
"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see."
James Baldwin, Art, Love
"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
Henry David Thoreau, Art
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau, Arrogance, Art, Life
"And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?"
Alice in Wonderland, Art, Happiness
"You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting, Art
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
George Orwell, Art
"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
George Orwell, Art
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Art
"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"In order to write about life first you must live it."
Ernest Hemingway, Art, Life
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"The first draft of anything is shit."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
Ernest Hemingway, Art
"Writing is the geometry of the soul."
Plato, Art
"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
Bruce Lee, Art
"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."
George Washington, Goals, Art, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot … It’s much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more ... I want to say 'sophisticated.'"
Betty White, Art, Happiness
"It’s fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh."
Betty White, Art, Happiness
"Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong."
Betty White, Art
"Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Art
"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
Audrey Hepburn, Art
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle, Art
"Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
Mark Twain, Art
"I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."
Van Gogh, Art
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
Van Gogh, Art
"I am crazy about two colors: carmine and cobalt. Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing so beautiful for creating atmosphere. Carmine is as warm and lively as wine… the same with emerald green."
Van Gogh, Art
"Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors… for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance."
Van Gogh, Art
"You can’t be at the Pole and at the Equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be colour."
Van Gogh, Art
"Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit."
Van Gogh, Art
"Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul."
Van Gogh, Art
"I assure you that there’s a lot involved in compositions with figures. … It’s like weaving… you must control and keep an eye on several things at once."
Van Gogh, Art
"As you can see, I am immersing myself in color—I’ve held back from that until now; and I don’t regret it."
Van Gogh, Art
"I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone."
Van Gogh, Art
"I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.."
Van Gogh, Art
"I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening…like a light in the midst of the darkness."
Van Gogh, Art
"I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something."
Van Gogh, Art
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul."
Van Gogh, Art
"The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting."
Van Gogh, Art
"Occasionally, in times of worry, I’ve longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no—just let me be myself—and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship."
Van Gogh, Art
"I’m drawing a great deal and think it’s getting better."
Van Gogh, Art
"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."
Van Gogh, Art
"At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky."
Van Gogh, Art
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'."
Van Gogh, Art
"What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
Van Gogh, Art
"I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process."
Van Gogh, Art
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
Van Gogh, Art
"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."
Van Gogh, Art, Love
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Van Gogh, Art, Love
"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
Van Gogh, Art
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."