239 quotes found
“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”
“Everybody says they want artists to make money and then when they do, everybody hates them for it. The word sellout is spit out by the bitterest, smallest parts of ourselves. Don't be one of those ...”
“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into con...”
“People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebo...”
“The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.”
“as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down t...”
“It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.”
“He doesnt see his path clearly, but also doesnt consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort,...”
“Its a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.”
“One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must...”
“The average artist has a nave, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved in making it, and what actually is happening behind the scenes. Too m...”
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of te...”
“A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words werent enough,I knewI was in love.”
“In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had just been picked out of the yard; and while I was drawing, my sharpened yellow pencil and the cup o...”
“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his h...”
“Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.”
“Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. Youre not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the f...”
“Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.”
“If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea,...”
“You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they dont contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never...”
