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“Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.”

Writing Artist Song Paint Diaries

Author:Jon Pareles

“I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.”

Knows Want Soul Song Brain Paint Blow Pursuit Makers Rhyme Mute Butchers Bakers Flutes

Author:Robert Browning

“Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars”

Song Stars Paint

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.”

Joy Song Gone Virtue Blood Painting Masters Fine Cold Paint

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.”

Looks Different Song Tree Singing Tired Plant Paint Albums Bored Far Away Plant A Tree

Author:Jason Mraz

“Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.”

Trying Littles Important Stories Song Singing Paint Imagery

Author:Shelby Lynne

“Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.”

People Trying Years Persons Has Beens Country Hard Song Emotion Technology Written Fashion Fields Years Ago Paint Contrary Vans Renoir

Author:Bob Dylan