Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'
I am not an artist.
I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.
Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.
If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
