Quotes on Art and Writing

Notebook

Lately, I have been writing down cool quotes I come across.

"Redemption in a novel is as cheap as the ink on the paper it is printed on as writers have always lied.
Paul Ford

"Art is the ability to tell the truth especially about one self." Richard Pryor

"I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don’t usually tell people what they mean. It convers to people that they have to participate." Jasper John.

"I don’t think of Art while I work. I think about life." John-Michael Basquait.

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From Seamus Heaney, Pen Work, Field Work, Dream Work.
HKU Mon March 6 2005

"The process of writing can lead you to beyond yourself." Seamus Heaney

"It’s easy and delicious to dwell in language." Seamus Heaney

"My daughter found a poem I wrote when I was 24 and she said, "You were so confident then," I replied, I was not confident -the poem is." Seamus Heaney

"A Poet who is not a realist is dead. A poet who is only a realist is also dead." Pablo Neruda (Quoted by SH)