Quotes About Artistry

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Make today your master piece.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.