Famous quote by Joni Mitchell

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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar"

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This quote is written / told by Joni Mitchell somewhere between November 7, 1943 and today. He/she was a famous Musician from Canada. The author also have 29 other quotes.

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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem"