Quotes About Artistry

All great art is a form of complaint

Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.