Kurt Sutter Quotes

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

This creating? It's my passion.

I think my inner child wants to take over the world.

There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.