Quotes About Artistry

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Art can contradict Science.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

We will be one step down from the Creator, " she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

in art, we do not run to keep up with random moments, we select & create the moment occurring forever:

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Make something beautiful of your life.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

How different everything is for the craftsman who transforms a part of the world with his own hands, who can see his work as emanating from his being and can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object — whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug — and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years..

When Senta started singing it was spellbinding—Daphne said this word to herself with a further shiver of pleasure.

T]he truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood.

I would argue, however, that in most and perhaps all forms of creative activity, an unencumbered, unregimented, inward-looking mind is required at certain points—a mind that has unplugged from the wired world.