Anne Waldman Quotes

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Serious art is born from serious play.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist, that's just what I want to do. I wanna keep exploring new things with different directors with different producers and different styles and tones.

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

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Art is both creation and recreation.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.