Always Quote by Perfume Genius

I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one…

— Nikki Sixx

I always tell people that my creativity lies in the belly of the beast and that's exactly what it is. A lot of people…

— Jlin

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see…

— George Saunders

I just can't seem to paint nice things.

— Ivan Albright

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

— Mary GrandPre

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

— Benjamin West

I think I was always meant to write dark stories.

— Marie Lu

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I do like to write about dark subjects.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

— Ben Eine

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner