Quotes About Artistry

In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.

She expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but – further – she left no trace of effort, you weren't aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, the confusion of the oral.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Pa i reproduciranje je jedan oblik stvaralaštva. Oni koji sviraju uvijek za?injaju juhu svoga sviranja ne?im vlastitim, ne?im što pripada samo njima. Njihova krv struji tom glazbom. Svaki izvo?a? ima svoj skromni cilj: dobro svirati. No i izvo?a? se mora podrediti autoru glazbe koju izvodi, kaže Erika. Priznaje da joj je to problem. Jer ona se nikako ne može podrediti. Njen je glavni cilj isti kao i cilj svih ostalih izvo?a?a: biti bolji od ostalih!

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

There was a poem with that mood by Pasternak: "Don't sleep, don't sleep, artist." It sounded better in Russian, because the word for "artist" had three syllables, it was an amphibrach, like "spaghetti," or "appendix." Don't sleep, don't sleep, gorilla, I thought as I went down the elevator to the subway platform.

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.

She knew and, I think, understood the joy that my mind derived, at these first hearings, from this task of modelling a still shapeless nebula.40

We can let it have its way, or we can direct it to our will; we can force it into new paths, or we can rehearse familiar works; we can listen to it, or we can relegate it to our subconscious; but we can never get rid of it. For one so endowed – or so burdened – to live is to live music.25

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

No escribo porque tenga cosas urgentes que decir. Escribo por el gusto de llenar las páginas en blanco del cuaderno que tengo abierto delante de mí.

Ordinary mind says that there is a beauty in writing ,but the beautiful heart knows that it is solely then when the words are penned down with the soul's feelings.

Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature.

Mozart was taking 'dictation from God'.

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.