I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
Bob DylanWell, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho MarxAll of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.
DJ KhaledThere ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.
Ludwig van BeethovenIt is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van GoghIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen CoveyWhen you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.
Kevin HartThe society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert CamusThe totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald ReaganI have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
Charles BukowskiWhat I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David BowieThe essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale CarnegiePerhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous HuxleyI’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
Lady GagaWe have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Kurt CobainI think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.
Vivienne WestwoodPeople think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.
Billie EilishEloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise PascalPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareEverything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea BallouPound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest HemingwayThere are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
Brian EnoEvery band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
Brian EnoLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRomantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar WildeWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan PoeVan Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
Wayne DyerIt’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
EminemA writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest HemingwayThe X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon MuskI must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark TwainI always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
Marilyn MonroeDiplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.
Will RogersThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnYou can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Ray BradburyAs our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham LincolnThe artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert CamusThe atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George OrwellI’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry PratchettStand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.
Jerry SeinfeldI don’t intend to stop making music.
Frank OceanI can operate in half-a-song format.
Frank OceanI love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.
RihannaIn art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
Frank OceanEverybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.
RihannaLove is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.
Ray BradburyIf you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.
J. K. RowlingLike anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen KingI think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas AdamsA common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas AdamsI 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 KnowlesAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeAnything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.
Taylor SwiftIt’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Aldous HuxleyOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VoltaireSomebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.
Charles BukowskiSongwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.
Dolly PartonI write screenplays in the middle of the night.
Ray BradburyIf you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga