Art Quote by Rich Burlew

I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

— Andy Partridge

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

— Stephin Merritt

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

— Al Jourgensen

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

— Jonathan Carroll

In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They…

— Tama Janowitz

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work.…

— Tony Harrison

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

— Gregory David Roberts

“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste…

— Yves Klein

I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

— Jason Jones

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

— Willard Wigan

“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you…

— Fran Lebowitz

If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.

— Johan Renck