Quotes About Artistry

No two authors can render the same story in the same fashion.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

He was now a master puppeteer, adroitly manipulating his marionettes, with the strings artfully concealed.

With me it has always been a maxim rather to let my designs appear from my works than by my expressions.

It probably isn't coincidental that so many of them are the work of writer-directors who are passionate about telling their stories—as opposed to journeymen who are simply carrying out an assignment

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

La semplicità è la sofisticazione finale.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.

Art is never completed, only abandoned.

El pintor es dueño de todas las cosas que el hombre pueda pensar... lo que en el universo existe por esencia, presencia o imaginación, él lo tiene antes en su mente y en sus manos luego

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.

More often, a poem went through twenty or thirty drafts with amazing numbers of alterations

It may be that I have sought to cultivate that trait in myself to such a high degree because I think of myself primarily as a writer. The chief satisfaction in the whole business of writing, it seems to me, comes down to saying what is, or what you think is.

darkened. And, oh, the graceful curve of the lower landing, the hand-hewn craftsmanship of each individual spindle, the hours of meticulous, painstaking labor. Except, then he turned away from the staircase toward the front sitting room to discover built-in shelves, a gorgeously restored fireplace mantel, the original crown dentil molding . . . He gave up. He stood in the middle of

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.