Quotes About Artistry

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Sonra k?z bir kilim dürmü? s?rtl?yor. Kilim onun eviymi?.

creativity is not a gimmick, but a lifestyle.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I'm always thinking music.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and gave you the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation. Creativity is His gift to you and the 'raw materials' to be put together in various ways are His gift to you as well.

Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.

One active artist gives courage and incentive, and germinates ideas in others for producing more art.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

The greatest gift a writer can give himself is permission to write badly.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say ? it leaves me something to do.