Quotes About Artistry

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it's my guitar because, really, it's what I love and it's what takes up all my time.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.

Does Jane Austen do her work too remorselessly well? For me, I mean? Maybe that is it. She makes me detest all her people, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her people up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worth while, too. Some day I will examine the other end of her books and see.

Shakespeare hiçbir ÅŸey yaratmad?. O, doÄŸru bir ÅŸekilde gözlemledi ve fevkalade resmetti.

Colocó a los personajes en las situaciones más extraordinarias, les hizo realizar los actos más sorprendentes y puso en sus bocas el más extraño lenguaje. Sin embargo, no hay modo de poder describir el capítulo. Era de una locura simétrica; era de un absurdo artístico, y llevaba notas explicativas al pie que igualaban en rareza al texto.

You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Do you still play the accordian?

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.

From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of a containing vessel. The jug's void determines all the handling in the process of making the vessel. The vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.

The subject matter of Coldplay songs is deeply intertwined with Chris's frame of mind. He has admitted he needs to be slightly morose, maudlin even, to write well. He cannot see how he can write if he is in a serious and happily committed relationship.

The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.