Quotes About Artistry

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

I want to make a poem of my life.

Her nose was perfect; her lips exquisite. Like a master placing a go stone on the board after long deliberation, he placed the details of her beauty one by one in the misty dark and drew back to savour them.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling, it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

The purpose of art, including literature, is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud."

Vision has a direct link with the creative process. Vision and creation go hand in hand. Vision belongs to the world of the mind. Creation happens in the world of matter. But there is a connection between these two worlds. In fact, one cannot exist without the other.

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

At this point I might not be the biggest star in the world and I may not be the greatest artist in the world, but I have achieved a very wide spread of interesting experiences. And I'm very happy about that.

When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

Un adev?rat artist nu abandoneaz? niciodat? frumuse?ea

So far as I know, no one has ever died because they gave a poor performance. The terror that appears so frighteningly real diminishes under closer scrutiny. Of course it is sad to do poor work. But then, we inevitably do a lot of bad work and we all have to deal with that.