Art Quotes
I act because it`s the one time I`m sure of my identity. There`s no doubt. It`s on paper.
Poetry is a very subjective and intimate expression. It`s literally your heartbeat. Your rhythm. The song of your soul. It`s superconcentrated. It`s a dense piece of yourself.
I don`t "do" emotion. Emotions are overrated. I`m more interested in creating a presence.
You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won`t get your second unless you`re good.
Slow, technical, cultural, and artistic advances made by innumerable workshops of painters and artisans were necessary before the Sistine Chapel was possible. But in the end, it was Michelangelo who painted it.
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.
You know how there`s time-based art? Movies, music, plays, it`s all time-based art. There`s a beginning, and a middle and an end. You have to see it from the beginning to the end. You`re restrained to that timeline... That way of experiencing it. But then there`s paintings. No beginning, no middle, no end. You see what you want to see when you want to see it. No restrictions, it`s just there.
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.