Quotes About Artistry

Keith Jarrett,

Great poets are great copy editors.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

His head was tipped back, eyes shut tight as he murdered Neil Young's "Heart of Gold.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Tout faire dans la vie avec passion. Artistes incroyables, invent euros brillants et merveilleux écrivains atteignent les plus hauts niveaux dans leurs champs à cause de leur passion. Sans passion, la vie est comme un coquillage vide et creuse couché dans le sable. Ce est la passion qui apporte la vie dans tout ce que vous faites dans la vie. Merci beeaucoup!

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.