Quotes About Artistry

Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write.

When you write a page and delete the whole thing, there is a sense in which it is not deleted. The better writer who remained behind is still there.

Good writing is like a great cathedral. The echoes are lovely.

ART. What's it all about? This is what ART is about…ART is when an artist looks at something…like a horse, for instance…and they see something in that horse that excites them…SO they do something about it. They tell you about it…in any one of a number of ways.

Musical Genius

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

It is always the writer's world that we enter in art—never the objective world.)

When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

I was born with music inside me

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

Music is really driving my whole life.

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.