Quotes About Artistry

I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence...

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.

Passion, the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a sentiment of exalted chivalry, and by the sense that a nature of such emotional intensity as his must always be ridden on the curb.

A poet can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory.

to manufacture sensations.

The poet must steal fire from the heavens.

The Bootmakers of Toronto, copyright © 2006 by Edward D. Hoch.

He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure.

Los mejores escritores tienen una única obra, que las escriben en veinticinco libros o lo que vos quieras, pero, es una sola obra.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

As long as you read this poem I will be writing it.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

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