The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark TwainI go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor SwiftI’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
Stephen KingMost people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. MenckenAll great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John RuskinI never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don’t ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I’m writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.
Alice MunroI think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
Christopher HitchensPound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest HemingwayMusic has the power to inspire the world.
Bad BunnyStories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Paul AusterThere should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar WildeWe have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich NietzscheEffective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Bill GatesBuild a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWho I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
Beyonce KnowlesIt’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.
Ray BradburyI’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Taylor SwiftIt’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack ObamaIt is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar WildeA record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady GagaImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack ObamaAmerica is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
Clint EastwoodGood thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
John C. MaxwellWe like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen KingIt’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
Paulo CoelhoTo some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
David ByrneWhat is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
George Bernard ShawOne of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor SwiftI think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor SwiftI think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Bob DylanI look like a woman, but I think like a man.
Dolly PartonNever regret what you don’t write.
Abraham LincolnWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
Tennessee WilliamsAn artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich NietzscheIt could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.
Conor McGregorI wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
Paulo CoelhoVulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.
Brene BrownLike Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.
Mr. TThe people in my songs are all me.
Bob DylanI like being a writer.
Terry PratchettIf 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. RowlingI get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.
Nipsey HussleI have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki MurakamiIn America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
Jackie ChanWhen you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
The WeekndI 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 BukowskiI feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.
Bruno MarsI said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!
Muhammad AliWithout freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert CamusI’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.
Virat KohliThere’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.
Dave GrohlI don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim CarreyThe mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
Oscar WildeI just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
The WeekndI always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.
Anthony HopkinsMy songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.
Dolly PartonGive a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.
John SteinbeckI can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
Taylor Swift