Private Art Quotes

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

I like to do meaningful tattoos and it's for myself and not the world. My tattoos are private.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

I write a song for me and I sing a song for me - no one else.

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.