Art Quotes

"I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe" "The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music." "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" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "In itself a wall on which an artist works so that it disappears is a marvelous creation" "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." "This world is but a canvas to our imagination" "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" "And your very flesh shall be a great poem." "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." "It’s very important that the film reveals something to you about the artist that makes it." "Understand that I am trying to make music out of my life." "I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky." "You make music to move people " "Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence" "Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness" "The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race"