Art Quotes - Page 12

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist

You cannot negotiate art.

Poem
Words from the heart
Breaking, teaching, healing
The deepest, purest form of art
Feeling

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think I can do it, then my actions will be "I CAN" and I am able to do it. So the result or the consequence will be "I did it!".

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album - or song - you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.