Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

I always say, if you want to judge a person, see what he/she laughs at.

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I think we all have different personalities... and even in relationships, we can be called psycho, and we can be called sweet, based on what the person feels about you.

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

I went to this dance with some of my friends and there were kids saying 'I know who you are - you're Aaron Carter!' It doesn't bother me if people confuse us. I know we're very different. I am who I am. I don't wanna say I have a temperbut I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I'm bitter. I won't show you, but you can see it. Probably if you bring me Godiva chocolate, I'll be your friend again!

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

I don't understand beauty.