That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.
Joni MitchellWe call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
Joni MitchellI'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
Joni MitchellIn terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
Joni Mitchell