Quotes About Artistry

She said something unprintable. When she finished there were tears starting on her lower lids. "What I want to say, what I want to express I just…"Again she shook her head. "I can't say it." "If you want to keep growing as a poet, you'll have to.

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

every person who writes poems reinvents poetry. Don

Why does anyone ever decide to be an artist of any kind? It is the strangest life to endlessly put your head above the parapet and then wait to be shot down.

Blake, the English painter, poet and printmaker, was clearly a man stuck in the P section of potential careers. Now he is considered a great artist, but in his lifetime he was largely ignored or thought to be mad. I suspect it was because he was a gloriously original thinker, and no one ever really likes that.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

Be the person I'm playing. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I use to weave crowns

the doorkeeper's feet are seven armlengths long five oxhides for his sandals ten shoemakers worked on them

I have twenty acres of trees to care for. And I'm a wood-carver. You thought they were weapons?" Peter

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public.

I have a great horror of shams on the stage--of what will not bear close inspection--of what is not real. I never use spangles, tinsel, and cheap theatrical glitter--it offends my artistic sense. I always employ hand embroideries in bullion and silk, and will have nothing to do with the generally used appliqué embroideries on the stage, and I have found that what is the best always has the best effect, whether looked at from a distance or near at hand.

She stared in awe at the musicians and wished she knew how to make such beauty. It must be so tremendous to create something out of nothing. Out of sound. Out of air. Out of movement and -

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.