If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily DickinsonArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanI design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
Vivienne WestwoodSometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.
Angelina JolieI can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.
Anthony BourdainFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinAnd if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.
Taylor SwiftOnce I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.
David BowieBetter understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim RohnPerhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Brian EnoI guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.
David BowieThere is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander PopeYou know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘
Joe BidenAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles BukowskiSo vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopeLanguage is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonWriting is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. LewisI resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew CarnegieAn honest man is always a child.
SocratesI’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya AngelouTake the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
Wayne DyerI’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.
John KennedyBehold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeThe writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VoltaireMoney doesn’t talk, it swears.
Bob DylanNot only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingHappy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander PopeThere’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David BowieIf you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William ShakespeareNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsZen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan WattsTo the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.
Anthony BourdainA state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston ChurchillEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreWhy should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie ChaplinThere are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.
Jim MattisAny artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Matthew McConaugheyMusic is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Bruno MarsThe last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.
Wayne DyerI’m just a simple country girl.
Dolly PartonThere are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
Taylor SwiftThat man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauOur life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauWithout freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert CamusWe have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
VoltaireAs long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick LamarEvery artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Albert CamusLanguage is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam ChomskyAll difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao TzuEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerWhen the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert EinsteinMy style influences my music and everything around me.
Bad BunnyArt should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar WildeI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William JamesA man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. LewisEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann HesseReal art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.
John WaynePart of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
Jordan PetersonI hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.
Beyonce Knowles