Quotes About Artistry

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Get in there. Sing the song. Get out. I'm not big on a hundred takes and a thousand overdubs. My kind of singing isn't meant to be perfect. It's meant to reflect the imperfections of a human being like me. After a couple of takes, that reflection is pretty accurate.

Some people say I sing behind the beat, but I'm in front of it sometimes too. I know where I am, and that's where I want to be.

Johnny zingt geen liedjes. Johnny is zelf een liedje.

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

Spirit is born of the imitation of spirit and a writer must pretend to be a writer in order finally to become a writer.

If one has the talent it pushes for utterance and torments one; it will out; and then one is out with it without questioning.

God has been using creative people throughout history to bring glory and honor to His name.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

You are creative, whoever you are. Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.

Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.

to be some exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle

Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

Johann Sebastian Bach presumably had other things in mind when, in about 1723, he wrote his "Air on a G string" (actually so named by a later arranger.) Part of a larger piece for string quartet, the "Air" includes a violin solo that fits entirely on the G string, the lowest of the violin's four strings.