“Real artists ship.”
“To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.”
“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.”
“The real engineer is an artist otherwise he/she is half engineer.”
“Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.”
“It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent”