Quotes About Artistry

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

Creativity is an integral part of existence and it emanates from the mind.

Human creativity is borne as a reflection of the infinite creativity of God himself. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize that because they are like God they can really invent. Artistic inventiveness is a reflection of God's unbounded capacity to create.

O black and unknown bards of long ago,How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?How, in your darkness, did you come to knowThe power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on.

Mas choro na mesma, porque era um caminho possível e eu não fui por aí. Choro pela ideia, pela opção que se perdeu. Às vezes também choro pela artista que havia em mim e pelo que a minha vida poderia ter sido se eu tivesse continuado. Choro por todas as minhas identidades perdidas. Pelas possibilidades que tive.

To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on. I am beginning to realize I don't want to be rejected my entire life. Felicia

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

I'd like to say I'm R&ampB's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&ampB.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&ampB.'

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

All art moves between the extremes.

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.

To make a photo from what we see is easy, but to create a realistic photo and show others what we have in our mind is a completely different story.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges

I have never seen so many ugly dresses. I cannot find this dress, which was woven out of daydreams and naiveté.

came pouring out, nor had he ever heard anything like it; it was so clear

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

There are a lot of things we don't have in life, but time is not one of them. Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name, to produce a body of work that says, "This is how I saw the world." Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

Art is free," he said, "and is not to be diminished by any chains of craftsmanship.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor.