Dorothy Parker Quotes

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

Useless, a superficial mindless recitation of what we know from the daily press.

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull your punches and second-guess yourself and not do things because you're worried, then don't write. Stay home and do something else.

The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.