Quotes About Artistry

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.

I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.

Technically excellent, perhaps, but not convincing.

AMORY WRITES A POEM

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

The art of the child is in non-realization.

I enjoy using words. Or rather: I enjoy making words work.

The true landscapes are those that we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them.

To live is to crochet according to a pattern we were given. But while doing it the mind is at liberty, and all enchanted princes can stroll in their parks between one and another plunge of the hooked ivory needle. Needlework of things … Intervals … Nothing …

With this thoroughly established, complete and autonomous plays can unfold in us line by line. We may no longer have the energy to write them, but that won't be necessary. We'll be able to create secondhand; we can imagine one poet writing in us in one way, while another poet will write in a different way. I, having refined this skill to a considerable degree, can write in countlessly different ways, all of them original.

Desenrolo-me como uma meada multicolor, ou faço comigo figuras de cordel, como as que se tecem nas mãos espetadas e se passam de umas crianças para as outras. Cuido só de que o polegar não falhe o laço que lhe compete. Depois viro a mão e a imagem fica diferente. E recomeço.

One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work.

I've always been a fan of Coldplay.

At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.

Backstreet Boys have an international fan base, and fans love what we do. I didn't want to be one of those artists that does something totally different so people would ask, 'Why did he do that?' Is he not proud?'

I grew as an artist and a person. I'm just ready to work, get this money, get this new fan base and tour all over the world.

I am a Florenz Ziegfeld fanatic.