Quotes About Artistry

If you're to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you're the artist, not the canvas.

I wake up everyday with an intention of delivering my masterpiece... nothing less

Art is not about achievement, but rather a new perspective to look from.

The mind is masterpiece.

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.

Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.

Creativity is the power to act.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

People view celebrities from a place of envy and inferiority. Instead of being personally inspired by their great artistry they see them in a position they could never attain

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

In art one idea is as good as another.

Applaus," zei hij, "wat een vreselijke manier om een kunstenaar te belonen. Hij heeft zich ingespannen de mooiste muziek te zingen of te spelen en het brengt zijn publiek tot niets anders dan het maken van het eentonigste lawaai dat er bestaat.

Er zijn twee soorten schrijvers. De eerste soort wil zich, zichzelf, rechtvaardigen als mens. De tweede soort wil zich rechtvaardigen als schrijver.

You're a true poet: but, my dear, If you would hold the public ear, Remember to be not too clear. Be strange, be verbally intense; Words matter ten times more than sense; In clear streams, under sunny skies, The fish you angle for won't rise; In turbid water, cloudy weather, They'll rush to you by shoals together.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.