Quotes About Artistry

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Write while the heat is in you.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.