"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."

Art, Time

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."

Exlpore more Art quotes

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Art, Beauty, Creation, Inspiration, Aesthetic

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Poetry, Humor, Accuracy, Creativity

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Storytelling, Life, Reality, Truth

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Art, Inspirational, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Art, Poetry, Expression, Creativity, Life

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Art, Storytelling, Magic, Emotion, Heart

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Art, Poetry, Time, Music, Writing

"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Life, Soul, Energy

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Art, Writing, Life, Presence, Creativity

"Music gives strength to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Strength, Soul, Power

Explore more quotes by Ray Davies

"Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time."

Time, Brother, Friend, Play

"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."

England,

"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done."

Change, Life

"At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing."

Time, Sound

"When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing."

Time, Key

"If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear."

Music, Will, World

"I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere."

Music, Songs

"I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio."

Time,

"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."

Country,

"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."

Art, Time