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 to depend on your craft, so you try to p...
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting an...
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.
Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
Create with the heart; build with the mind.
The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.
When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
His mind It says survival of the fittest but His soul Revival of the idiots So good riddance, dancing
The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he's about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being t...
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.
