Iggy Pop Quotes

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.