Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

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.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.