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. |