Quotes About Artistry

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she's got a great voice and she's a great songwriter as well

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

Creative artists have great passion.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.