Art Quotes

"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" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work" "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Literature is news that stays news." "The life so short, the craft so long to learn" "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "In chess, one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge" "Literature is fire" "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" "I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that " "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "The essence of acting is to communicate to every audience member."