Quotes About Artistry

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.

When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

I think I've been lucky to work with so many lovely people. But there's Joshua Bell, who's the world's greatest violinist. We worked together live and once, for his record, but I really would want to work with him on one of my records.

I do belong on stage.

Robert Shelton of The New York Times had reviewed a Greenwich Village performance by a young folk singer, Bob Dylan. "His clothes may need a bit of tailoring," Shelton wrote of Dylan, "but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano, and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

Wszystko, co w ?yciu najlepsze, Bill, to dzieÅ'o ludzkich rÄ…k: ostrza scyzoryków, chleb, ubrania, kochanie siÄ™...

Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews? Basically everything, except technical proficiency, Walter said. Right. But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song.

All of a sudden I became aware of how very hungry I was to construct and inhabit an imagined world.

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself.

I'm forever writing around a void—I guess I don't have to explain to you why that is.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he's playing at several games at once.

Art is fire plus algebra.

Mi empresa no es difícil, esencialmente. Me bastaría ser inmortal para llevarla a cabo. Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

Publicamos para não passar a vida a corrigir rascunhos. Quer dizer, a gente publica um livro para livrar-se dele

Quando um indivíduo cria algo, digamos, uma composição musical, um romance, uma pintura, um filme, um vídeo, esse indivíduo se torna um autor, quer dizer, alguém que é capaz de deixar marcas, traços de seu modo próprio de criar mensagens em um processo de signos com o qual lida. O autor é aquele que interfere de modo particular e pessoal em um processo de signos.

If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.

In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

Poetry is given to the poet. I don't think a poet can sit down at will and write. If he does, nothing worthwhile can come of it.