Art Quotes

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society disregarding race or religion or wealth or color" "Life is short, the art long" "Painting completed my life" "I am music " "Can beauty be so sad" "I don't do drugs. I am drugs" "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "Nature is a haunted house, but Art is a house that tries to be haunted " "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" "The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them." "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." "I believe that to create good work, you need strong emotion. You need to feel something deeply." "The beautiful is always bizarre"