Quotes About Artistry

He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda

If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for, which is to make something that will become a part of the reader's experience and a part of his memory.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Can you imagine anyone making wine because it tastes like strawberries?

Write the best story you can and throw out all the good lines.

I don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist he is. If he can show me how to operate on a heart so that I can cure a brother, or cure someone else, I don't give a damn what the man thinks; he has taught me something. And that is valuable to me. And that is valuable to others and man as a whole.

I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

Creativity should be an everyday experience. Creativity should be as common as breathing. We breathe, therefore we create.

The artisan soul is not about rebellion but about resonance.

Creativity should be an everyday experience. Creativity should be as common as breathing. We breathe, therefore we create. I

Layton combined dialogue, song, and dance in a fluidly shifting action

Like Oscar Hammerstein, LaChiusa knows that characters express themselves in their own wording as well as their own music.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing, or thinking about writing.

I noted a second time appreciation for the author's making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip service to the fact that preaching is an art as well as a science, but then we become afraid that someone will think we speak of preaching as an art as an excuse for ambiguity, sloppy thinking, and poor reasoning. In defense, we omit all art and artistry and proceed to offer the reader an adequate technology for framing and delivering the message.

On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now on having been the fine artist I might have been.

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

?le ci to idzie, Tzara. Nie umiesz. ?eby kogo? dobrze zniewa?y?, nie wystarczy przemo?ne pragnienie, entuzjazm ani zapa?. Konieczny jest warsztat.

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.