Quotes About Artistry

The ideal: to be able to repeat oneself like... Bach.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Creativity is taking a simple thing and bringing it to life.

What does it mean to be a great poet? It means that you wrote one or two great poems. Or great parts of poems. That's all it means. Don't try to picture the waste or it will alarm you.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

Personality cults by contemporary painters infuriate me. One must seek the opposite, fade away more every day, and find exactingness only in the act of painting, and always forget oneself.

Men, born doubtless to be beautiful—for all creatures have a relative beauty—are enrolled from their childhood beneath the yoke of force, beneath the rule of the hammer, the chisel, the loom, and have been promptly vulcanized.

The author writes a play, then is through with it, aside from collecting royalties. Four weeks of rehearsing and the director's work is done. Theirs are creative jobs. But how would the author feel if he had to write the same play over each night for a year? Or the director to restage it before each performance? They'd be as balmy as Nijinsky in a week. Even the ushers traffic with different people every night. But the actress? She's a caged parrot.

She distracted him by pulling her gift for him out from under the bed. It was two-tiered and beautifully wrapped, with an exquisite card she had made herself—she was an artist, after all. He read the message inside, felt a catch in

It's as if all our hearts are joined by invisible threads to that of the artist and together we form one huge heart.

When we live alone time and freedom are at the service of our muse in a way that artists in a relationship might envy.

Whether it's that first mark with a brush on a canvas or pencil to paper, boldly make it and then let yourself free-fall. Art creates art.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Only give me the chance to do my very best!

The words came to her in torrents, they cascaded through her brain and she just had to hold the pen. Sometimes when she was writing they came so quickly that she could hardly keep up. It was a wonderful feeling when the words poured from the pen without her needing to think for one second about what she should write.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

eliminate the self'. 'The player needs to be able to forget about himself,' she writes. 'This is when real communication begins. For with the elimination of the self, he is able to reach the very core of the music, and is free to transmit it.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Pens are too light.Take a chisel to write.

I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my identity as a North Carolinian.