Quotes About Artistry

At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me.

There's an art in every labour.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

What is art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? Didn't it all boil down to sticking a female in front of you and painting her as you feel she is?

What is art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? Didn't it all boil down to sticking a female in front of you and painting her as you feel she is? - page35

Sin embargo, es incapaz de aceptar a Emily como una artista adulta y consciente, dueña de su propia creación.

Why must these people go on, and on, copying, copying fragments of old relics from extinct churches, and old tombs as though those were the best that could ever be, and it would be a sacrilege to beat them? Why didn't they want to out-do the best, instead of copying, always copying what had been done?

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

We are the only poets," Emily told Susan, "and everyone else is prose.

You'd be surprised at how clearly you can hear something in your head and not be able to reproduce it.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

what there of is of jazz at its best is heavy stuff: it is small, but made of uranium

Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.

plus je peinais, plus je prenais conscience de mon souffle, de mon timbre, de la durée des notes, de l'inflexion des phrases, des accents, des tenues, des retenues, des ornements et des appoggiatures.

En déchiffrant la Berceuse, mes doigts révélaient du velouté, de la rondeur ; le son naissait et mourait, ductile, facile ; rien ne me coûtait.

Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endless

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

My knitting is simple", he said again. Ï can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.

For Kelly #6, his latest, that Seth had recorded with an entire orchestra behind him—and apparently, had sold and was touring to promote, for money, because Seth kept sending that too.