Quotes About Artistry

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.

Whatever you do, do it well.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

I thought of a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Él es el artista; yo, la anarquista.

Worry less about getting recognized and more about becoming good at what you do. Take yourself seriously. Take your art seriously. You are both worth this.

Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

You are an artist and the masterpiece is your life.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...

I take a seat high above the BQE, stare at Manhatten for a bit, and then I play. For hours. I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

If we human beings are information processing machines, reading X's & O's and translating that information into what people oh so breathlessly call "experience", & if I had not only the information but the artistry to shape that information using the computer inside my brain, then, technically speaking, was I not having all the same experiences those other people were having?

Anybody can buy. It takes an artist to shop.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Katherine believed that when the work was going well things just fell into place, as if by magic. It was the artist's job to open herself up, let herself be guided to whatever the next step might be.