Theophile Gautier Quotes

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Writing makes you more human.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.