Quotes About Artistry

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

Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble dew,Steel-true and blade-straightThe great artificerMade my mate.

I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

We do not want to destroy unnecessarily what men spent so much time and care and skill in making… [for] these examples of craftsmanship tell us so much about our ancestors.…

i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need of man's spirit; or that we can never look for healthy social body until that need,among others, is fed.

don't believe I've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need of man's spirit; or that we can never look for a healthy social body until that need, among others, is fed.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

Creativity is choice-making.

We shape the telling to fit the substance, rework the substance to support the design.

Porque los artistas no deben tener sólo ideas que expresar, sino ideas que demostrar. Expresar una idea, en el sentido de presentarla, nunca es suficiente. El público no debe únicamente entender; debe creer.

Mastery of craft frees the subconscious.

Las naturalezas creativas no son especulativas. Eso las distingue de los imitadores.

I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between "modern" or "progressive," "swing" or "bebop." "I don't think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type," he mused. "Music doesn't go seasonable to me."44

Thelonious Monk's music is essentially about freedom.

Si supieseis cuánto trabajo costó, no lo llamaríais ingenio MIGUEL ÁNGEL

Saben lo que dijo Picasso en cierta ocasión? —Cuéntenoslo, por favor —suplicó la emprendedora, cuya mirada demostraba que en ese instante se sentía muy receptiva. —El pintor dijo: «Cuando era un niño mi madre me dijo: si vas a ser soldado, serás general. Si vas a ser monje, terminarás siendo el papa. En lugar de eso me convertí en pintor y terminé siendo Picasso».

Las palabras tienen el poder de crear

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Orson Welles] was a man who made the greatest film ever made and was never forgiven for it.

Our word 'poetry' comes from Greek poi?sis, the skill of making things;