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Quotes About Artistry

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.
~ John Forsythe
The Bible does not say you are God's appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
~ John Ortberg
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
~ Pablo Picasso
God and other artists are always a little obscure.
~ Oscar Wilde
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
~ Patti Smith
We are artists, because God is.
~ Peter Kreeft
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.
~ Rajneesh
Sincere composers believe in God.
~ John Philip Sousa
God is the perfect poet.
~ Robert Browning
Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!
~ Christopher Atkins
I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
~ Diana Vreeland
I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'
~ Eric Clapton
Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
~ Julia Cameron
What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
~ Marianne Williamson
Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!
~ Robert Plant
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.
~ Pearl Bailey
Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.
~ Richard Zimler
We are God's productions, His compositions.
~ David Jeremiah
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.
~ Jack Antonoff
The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
~ Umberto Eco