Quotes About Artistry

every wave is a masterpiece of originality. It will ever be so. Go and see." —Willard Bascomb, Waves and Beaches

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

He creates mosques and forts that aren't buildings, but tapestries of rock.

The problem with artists, Jahanara, is that we often forget the more common things in life. Our heads are so high in the clouds that we don't see the world beneath.

Contracting the construction of a papal masoleum was nothing like being alone with his dreams and drawings, chisel and stone. Instead of working, he was writing letters, meeting contacts, arranging payments, obtaining permissions. It was a question of time.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

I'll save you some time...if I didn't rate all my books asa 5 stars, I bloody well wouldn't have written them!!

An essay writer's pen weaves thoughts into a tapestry of eloquence, where every word is a brushstroke painting the canvas of knowledge

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor.

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle.

She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

I don't think writers compete, I think they're all doing separate things in their own style.

A beautiful, fresh, white paper—it frightens, ja ? 'I am pure and virgin, I am perfect already,' it says. 'Who dares to mar this so-perfect white?' Only the artist says, 'I dare. You exist only to receive my thought, my image, my stroke of blue!

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.