Quotes About Artistry

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

Imagination needs to be fed.

How can you read this? There's no pictures!" "Well, some people use their imagination." – Gaston & Belle

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.