"To draw you must close your eyes..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.”

“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“I don't work from nature, I work like nature.”

“In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.”

“When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.”

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”

“Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.”

“It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.”