Dan Simmons Quotes

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.

Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented it to Alice [Cooper]. It felt like he wrote the lyrics in about a minute.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

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

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'