China Mieville Quotes

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and encourages me to go on a deeper journey to find my own compassion and empathy and humanity.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

Creating means living.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

You are the artist and the art.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Modeling isn't boring.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.