Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

I need to write to be happy.

Don't think it, ink it.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.