I’ve played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It’s vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the...

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle – poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it...

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo’s vision, ‘I saw the angel in the...

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

My normal friends loved having a token author. Just like every WoW raiding party needs at least one healer, every gaggle needs at least one artist. They enjoyed introducing me to people at bars. “This...

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I’m a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

There’s something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn’t...

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a...

Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It’s all truth, or it’s no good. EIther write what’s in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more...

Creatively, I’d like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief time coexisting. It’s not a neat hard cut,...

I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say “watch me”.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though–and what an odd way to achieve success. I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques...

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go...

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, ’cause I’m known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.

Art is unpredictable.

But you’re an artist. you should know there’s more to a story than the part happening right now.

The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must...

As an artist I’d choose the thing that’s beautiful more than the one that’s true.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening,...

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts–such is the duty of the artist.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim...

Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it....

Magic is logic.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you’re an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like – it influences how you’re going to...

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young...

… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

Music is not my life. My life is music.