Artistic Quest Quotes

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly authentic place of sound and intention that only I can bring. Everyone has their own expression. I'm still on that quest and I hope to always be.