Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

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.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life, Sarah and me. It's my favorite of all my poems.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Switching genres actually motivates me.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.