Art Quotes - Page 3

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst - you need them both.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.

This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Imagination is Everything!

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.