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“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.”

Trying Song Universe Term Study Painting Intellectual Bigger Intuition Faithful Description Ineffable

Author:Guy Consolmagno

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.”

Giving Art Real Reality Form Purpose Artist Song Painting Determination Tales Confused Theme Imaginative

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.”

Wells Age Song Painting Taste Degrees Native Faculty Rude

Book:Miscellanies;

Source: Miscellanies;

“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

“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”

Children Song Creative Cutting Painting Our Children Edges Our Family Cutting Edge

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“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

“The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.”

Ifs Needs Writing Seems Song Information Painting Roots Mirrors Mere Sentences Realist Impart

Author:Colm Toibin

“When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.”

Writing Believe Soul Together Song Realizing Color Painting Listening Pens Mates Writing Songs Soul Mate

Author:Prince

“If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Firsts Art Would Be Able Song Pieces Painting Seven Albums Admire If I Could Publishing

Author:Axl Rose

“As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.”

Ideas Matter Inspiration Song My Own Subjects Painting Periods Studios Performing Usual Juice Subject Matter Pouring

Author:Adrian Belew

“Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Writing Mean Song Painting Music Is Imaginary Canvas Amazing Things

Author:Lou Reed