Quotes About Artistry

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Street performances?""A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.""Wow.""I know! The Portuguese have taste.

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

I'm not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"]

Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement.

Don't be an artist. Be somebody's artist.

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they're all the same.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.