Quotes About Artistry

A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

Everything is temporary. I don't know how long will I have my time here in the industry. I want to concentrate in making good music. That will be my biggest satisfaction.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far more advanced than what he wrote in his twenties or in his teens. The more music he wrote, the more he was able to write.

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has.

Somé parecia ter sido empalhado em ébano macio por um mestre que se entendiou da própria maestria e começou a tender ao grotesco.

a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

The object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The picture should only start the observer, should make him think he sees more than is on the canvas. To do this, the painter takes all the factors of the canvas and sets them in motion. He must create a rhythm of movement through all.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it if you wanted to.