Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one - or both. Usually both.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
O, how much simpler things would be, if eyes could paint or brush could see.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.