Tom Verlaine Quotes

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.