People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will – even if it’s not immediately obvious. When you hold yourself to the same standard in your work that you do as a friend, girlfriend, student, or otherwise, it pays off.
Ask yourself each day: If I only did 3 things today, what are the actions that will produce the greatest results in moving me closer to my big goals?
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
Nothing I have written or done has made any difference in this world, and suddenly I know what it means to rage, and to crave. I read the whole poem and eat it up, drink it up.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Art is supposed to represent how you see the world, not exactly copy it.
All art is quite useless.
The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking, and honest writing.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.