Quotes About Artistry

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry—banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up

Still, making music is its own reward.

I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative.

the space, the platform, and the software "makes" the art, the music, or whatever.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

To paraphrase one of my favorite math professors: The difference between great artists, and artists who are not so great, is that great artists think deeply about simple things.

As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that are not necessarily pleasant but are real - a criminal, a murderer, a sadist, a rapist; to be all of these things that many people are. You can't allow yourself to say, 'I'm a different species from those people.' Because you aren't.

If you're a perfectionist about your writing, [your rough draft] is the time to get over it. . . . Decide ahead of time that your rough draft is going to be pretty awful, and join the ranks of the great writers of the world. . . . Save the niceties for the revision stage.

What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

Freedom is our ability to make things up just for the sake of being able to do so.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty,you know you're an artist.

Artists, real artists, have to work. They can't be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You have to look and to work. That's exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That's what you need.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Animation had been a thriving medium when Walt came along, but was dismissed as amateur entertainment for children. Common were bland, forgettable, poorly drawn characters going through nonsensical antics. Walt himself could barely draw a decent Mickey Mouse.

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.