Quotes About Artistry

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

You are born naked, the rest is drag.

Drag really is all about dipping into pop culture and then reshaping it into something else.

I found in them the qualities I looked for in professional writers and artists of all kinds, a total dedication to their work, not necessarily obvious but discernible all the same, compassion, intelligence rather than intellect, and that peculiar attitude to the world in general, half of mockery, half of deep concern...

People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.

good omelettes are still hard to come by. They shouldn't be made in a hurried or slapdash manner. Some thought has to go into an omelette. And a little love too. It's like writing a book—done much better with some feeling!

Anyone can be a photographer, even a monkey can be taught to do that, but a developer, no. It is the work of real craftsmen, exactly like an engraver, a real profession.

Interviewer: The other day, when we first talked, you said that you felt that, when you were writing, you were often following invisible patterns. Stone: I don't see them so much as hear them, and I know that a poem will happen and later I will look at it, and say: Wow, where did that come from? how did I do that? I didn't set out to do that, but the neural connections are so fast, the body, the self is so slow, (laughs) that you're kind of astonished. It's odd.

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.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

[T]he author writes as a race-horse runs, for the sake of it. He feels like it, and kindles just because he enjoys burning.

God is the greatest of artists! How good of Him to give us this world, and the change to imitate Him by bettering it. Wryly: If only we did not mar it, and ourselves, so often!

Ne vois-tu pas que, si les gens de métier s'accommodent jusqu'à un certain point aux goûts des particuliers, ils n'en restent pourtant pas moins attachés à la raison de leur art et ne supportent pas de s'en écarter?

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Art is what you can get away with, said somebody or other, which makes it sound like shoplifting or some other minor crime. And maybe that's all it ever was, or is: a kind of stealing. A hijacking of the visual.

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive us.

It was a problem in comic books: drawing an invisible man.

Art was a kind of demonic possession. Art would dance you to death. It would move in and take you over, and then destroy you.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.