Art Quote by Jamila Woods

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms,…

— Clifford Ross

A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and photographs and…

— W. S. Di Piero

I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up…

— Terence Nance

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a…

— Jeff Koons

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

— Omari Hardwick

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

— Sebastian Lelio

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other…

— Neill Blomkamp

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested…

— Martha Ronk

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

— Amanda Gorman