Quotes About Artistry

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

All artists give birth. It's alchemy and it's really an amazing process.

An artist's most valuable asset is individuality.

Art must exist beyond reason.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand

Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? "Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat..." That's freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Award already!

nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.