Quotes About Artistry

Artists! They were all crazy. In a good way, of course.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when that's burnt out, any muck ready to hand?

The last thing I need is to hear one more person saying, 'Isn't Stevie Nicks cute.' I'm not responsible for the way I look, but I am responsible for what I do creatively. Nothing would make me happier than recognition as a songwriter.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

When your art fails, make better art.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we're stamping out the artist that lives within.

Leo Babauta's brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year.

The craftsman and the artist say, "Here, I made this." The workingman is asked to follow instructions.

Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists.

Art isn't a result; it's a journey. The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

The problem doesn't lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead. Here

The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews

Catarina always said skill and talent were better than status because with skill and talent one could not only create beautiful things but earn money from the sale of those things. Status only bought one respect, and one could not fill an empty belly with respect.

Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, "I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

'The Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.