Art Quotes

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "You are the music while the music lasts" "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn" "I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind" "This is a perfect example of why it is so difficult to be a singer and not a poet." "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves" "As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls." "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." "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm" "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living" "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities"