Quotes About Artistic

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at—not copy it.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

Ensconced in the attic, she was producing somewhat lopsided and slippery pieces of sculpture out of an acrid-smelling yellow soap and appearing in a flowered smock and an artistic trance at mealtimes.

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

All men are poets at heart.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

the filmmaker must always seek a new tension with reality and constantly negate himself in order to continue to create a new artistic involvement. (?shima 1992: 48, translated by Dawn Lawson)

that whole fussy room still carried an atmosphere of having been crocheted into existence rather than carpentered.

Ideal umjetnika: tiho živjeti i biti u sve dane zaposlen stvaranjem u najraznoli?nijim formama, ali stvaranjem jedino i davanjem uvijek, da se nema vremena da živi i da se ima od svih radosti samo jednu jedinu: veliku radost stvaranja, a potom mirno iš?eznuti i ostaviti se u boji, u liniji, u rije?i, u gestu, u zvuku, da bi se svijetlilo vijekovima i grijalo svoje i svakog.

So, the choreographer's the one telling everybody to change their balls. And all the rest. That's key when you've got a musical deal with the singing and dancing. You've got a big bunch of people to coordinate. It's like . . . artistic crowd control.

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

Hay tantas cosas que hacer, tantas cosas que escribir! Cuánto se necesita, incluso para empezar a dar cuenta de todo sin los frenos distorsionadores y los cuelgues como esas inhibiciones literarias y los miedos gramaticales…

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.