Quotes About Artistry

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I know I'm an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I'm not a jazz musician. I'm not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It's in between these areas.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

Fiction is an improvement on life

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand. It

people with ADHD feel an abiding need—an omnipresent itch—to create something.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

Focus on the writing of the writer, not the picture of the writer.

Molten gold thrown of ground solidifies into an ungainly mass, but put in moulds becomes attractive jewelry. Similarly, unarticulated thoughts reduced to writing will be nothing but meaningless jumble; whereas, properly reasoned and structured thoughts expressed in writing become meaningful, and if well written, can become masterpieces of literature.

Molten gold thrown on ground solidifies into an ungainly mass, but put in moulds becomes attractive jewelry. Similarly, unarticulated thoughts reduced to writing will be nothing, but meaningless jumble; whereas, proper reasoned and structured thoughts expressed in writing become meaningful, and if well written, can become masterpieces of literature

No one other than writers, poets, and such genius figures stay working and never retire until their last breath

The thought stays empty and spiritless until that dresses a dress of diction and articulation, to empower itself.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn't been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.