Quotes About Artistry

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

Genius creates from the heart and when men put love into their work there is power in it, there is a soul in the body.

Her needles clicked and flashed triumphantly as her eyes came back from their journeying and fixed themselves upon her work for that one knitting event for which their regard was necessary- the turning of the heel.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

So—you're a writer. You're an artist.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

He malgastado mi vida. ¡Vamos! Finjamos, holguemos, ¡oh piedad! Y existiremos divirtiéndonos, soñando amores monstruosos y universos fantásticos, quejándonos y combatiendo las apariencias del mundo, saltimbanqui, mendigo, artista, bandido, ¡sacerdote! Sobre mi lecho de hospital, el olor del incienso retornó a mí tan potente; guardián de aromas sagrados, confesor, mártir…

The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

Maybe everyone had that one thing that would tempt them—in her case, the sight of an artist's arm rising and falling as it brought a new version of her into being. And if you caught sight of that, in the right place at the right time, then some new bubble of possibility opened out, and some extraordinary thing unfolded.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.

I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

It got so I used all of myself up in the making of that song. Then I was the song in search of itself. That song rattling in my throat and I'm looking for it.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Who wants to make the language of dreams?

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.