Quotes About Artistry

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails

If I had any hand in it at all there's a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

I don't think I"m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.