Ann Beattie Quotes

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

Don't think it, ink it.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art is all in the details.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

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.

Art is truth.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.