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Quotes About Artistry

When life, inspiration, and pen meet.
~ Valdas Partee
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.
~ Dhani Jones
No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge .
~ Adel Abouhana
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.
~ Peter Straub
Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.
~ Sarita Choudhury
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
~ Johnny Marr
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
~ Émile Zola
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
~ Ani DiFranco
i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.
~ Jonathan Heatt
To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.
~ River Fairchild
It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.
~ Kate Collier
There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.
~ Carl Henegan
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
~ Aneta Cruz
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
~ John Milius
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
~ John Milton
He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
~ John Milton
A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
~ John Milton
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
~ John O'Donohue
Revelation births creativity.
~ John Paul Jackson
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
~ John Piper
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
~ John Quincy Adams
The Ethereal Angels—these are the artists, the poets, the dancers. .
~ John Rechy