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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn’t mean they are great communicators in person.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands… something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.