The best artists know what to leave out.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

The best artists know what to leave out.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

Artists are like everybody else.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.