Quotes About Artistry

A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.

My sensibility is such that I automatically get drawn to films that have a good story, good characterization.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?

I'm ready to do good work in good films.

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.

For a whole fortnight my mind and my fingers have been working around me like two lost souls. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Byron, Hugo, Lamertine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them, meditate on them, devour them with fury; besides this, I practise four to five hours a day of exercises (thirds, sixths, octaves, tremolos, repetition of notes, cadenzas, etc.). Ah! provided I don't go mad you will find me an artist!

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)

No artist tolerates reality.

We can destroy only as creators

Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.