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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it’s the bus. There’re lots of books, but there’s only one bus.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
- Writing
Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001The Paris Review interview (1994)
- Courage
- Poetry
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse⁠—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness⁠—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer1886–1918Trees (1913)In context
- Nature
- Poetry
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer1886–1918Trees (1913)In context
- God
- Poetry
Life is not a support system for art. It’s the other way around.
Stephen Kingborn 1947On Writing (2000), C.V., 101
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It’s clever, but is it Art?”
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Other works
Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
Paul Klee1879–1940Diary entry (1915), # 951 , in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
Paul Klee1879–1940Diary entry (December 1905), # 733, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
- Beauty
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee1879–1940Creative Credo (1920), Section I
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee1879–1940Diary entry (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
- Nature
People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999
A film is⁠—or should be⁠—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999Kagan, Norman (1989), The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, New York: Continuum Books.
- Movies
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999“The Making of Kubrick’s 2001” (1970), edited by Jerome Agel, pg 11. Quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s and Video Viewer’s Companion (1988), p. 403.
- Movies
- Writing