Quotes About Artistry

There's no right or wrong in music, you know? Just everything in between.

There was something really great about being able to put something out into the world—a song, an introduction, even my voice—and let people make of it what they wanted. I didn't have to worry about how I looked, or if the image of me people had fit who I really was.

you draw (the painter)

William Morris championed the movement for Arts and Crafts. He believed that when we build a house with our hands, make furniture in our workshops, make pots and paintings in our studios, plant fruits and flowers in our gardens, we transform ourselves into alchemists, turning ordinary into extraordinary.

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

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

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Ihr Schauspiel ist immer neu, weil sie immer neue Zuschauer schafft. Leben ist ihre schönste Erfindung und der Tod ist ihr Kunstgriff, viel Leben zu haben.

She [nature] is the sole artist, creating extreme contrast out of the simplest material, the greatest perfection seemingly without effort, the most definite clarity always veiled with a touch of softness. Each of her works has its own being, each of her phenomena its separate idea, and yet all create a single whole.

Imitare l'inimitabile è un compito spaventoso

Seh ich die Werke der Meister an, So seh ich das, was sie getan; Betracht ich meine Siebensacahen, Seh ich, was ich hätt sollen machen.

I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

This was in the days when I was making myself over. So difficult it was, to judge just so, to forge the fine discriminations, to maintain a balance--no one could know how difficult. If it had been a work of art I was fashioning they would have applauded my mastery. Perhaps that was my mistake, to do it all in secret, instead of openly, with a flourish. They would have been entertained; they would have forgiven me; Harlequin is always forgiven, always survives.

If you look at practically anyone - I mean, I find this more and more - the more you look at people the more you find that they've actually manufactured themselves. People whose names that you know. I meet lots of people in my ordinary life, away from writing, who seem to be authentic, who seem to know where they've come from and who they are, but anyone that I deal with in, if you like, my profession, we all seem to have made ourselves. I think artists are all self-made.

version, though it fell somewhat short of the mood of, say, the last scene of "Die Meistersinger,

The greatest pleasure in life is to be understood, is it not? But who in the world does an artist like you or me find to understand

Nothing seems more beautiful to me than language when it creats the impression of order.

[W]hat a severe yet master artist old Winter is.... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

The one quality that seemingly guaranteed the success of these and so many other numbers is Pan's ability to remain open to a variety of sources and styles. Though it is difficult for any artist to avoid being redundant, Pan, nevertheless, strove to make each dance a complete and unique experience.

Her playing which had been superb became merely correct. It was necessary to suggest a certain sloppiness, the playing of something that hadn't been written. Computer-made music-synthesized Blue Moon- presented same problem. Random elements introduced.