Alberto Moravia Quotes

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Being an artist is celebrating life.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

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

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.