Quotes About Artistry

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart.

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

The hands of a pianist, or a painter, or a sushi chef, or even, as with Thomas Newcomen, hands that could use a hammer to shape soft iron, are truly, in any functional sense,

To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

My imaginations are as foulAs Vulcan's stithy.

Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

A rhapsody of words.

Fura, hogy egy süket ember éppen énekes kanárit tenyésszen. Beethovenre emlékeztet.

As if his whole vocationWere endless imitation.