Art & Creativity Sayings

Truly, to enjoy thoroughly the true poetry of the sea, your poem must preserve all its wildest prose.

I am a creature of fine sensations, but I am also a creature of terrible imperfections.

The cat, you know, is a perfect symbol of beauty and cruelty.

An English philosopher, named Locke, has stated that 'the human mind is a blank sheet of paper, whereon experience writes its lessons.'

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to suffer. When I am grown, I shall be a poet.

I want to write because I have the urge to create. I want to write because I have the urge. I want to write because I.

I'm a Buddhist, and I'm a Jew, and I'm a gay man, and I'm a poet, and I'm an American, and I'm a human being. I'm all of those things.

The word is a virus that creates its own reality.

I'm a writer, not a saint.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.

Poetry, thank God, does not need reason.

I am a very bad man, but I have a very good heart.

Gods always behave like the people who created them.

Poetry is not a thing that can be read with the mind, but with the heart.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

A live performance is a two-way current. You're giving to them and they're giving to you.

I don't mind if you call me a square, 'cause I'm hip enough to know that it's all music, and the main thing is to make people happy.

The only thing that matters is the music.