Quotes About Artistry

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

I'm a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.