Quotes About Artistry

Chasing the dragon is an art, you know – it must be done properly.

Don't die with your music still inside you.11

Lady Gaga or Amanda Palmer or something. Some cute lunatic with a piano.

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Only the perverse fantasy can still save us.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

In art the best is good enough.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Create, artist! Do not talk!

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.