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The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality. — Christina Strigas

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. — Philip Larkin

Create with the heart; build with the mind. — Criss Jami

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. — James Schuyler

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. — Debasish Mridha

Even the caged bird flys out when someone opens the door for it — Andrea L'Artiste

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. — Andrea L'Artiste

An artist is like a handicap
he needs his art to carry himself. — Yarro Rai

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee

Closed eyes cannot see the light — Andrea L'Artiste

It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more. — Alexander McCall Smith

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet? — Chingiz Aitmatov

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work. — Patti Smith

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much. — Peter Blegvad

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist. — Thomas Cole

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola

poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist. — Walter Isaacson

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him. — Allan Kaprow

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there, — Robert Ripley

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — Alice Walker

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away. — Nikky Finney

I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind — Andrea L'Artiste

The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that. — Gerald Stern

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch. — Criss Jami

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ... — Leni Riefenstahl

Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again. — Yarro Rai

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Closed eyes cannot see light — Andrea L'Artiste

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them. — Anthony Minghella

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye

How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski

Every Artist's Decision; the line between selling, and selling out — Branch Isole

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be — Abraham H. Maslow

The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet - our figure for the writer as artist - to write is to get real. — Gemino H. Abad

For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear? — Ouida

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity. — Anna Brownell Jameson

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM. — Renae A. Sauter

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective. — Roddy Woomble

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley