Quotes About Artistry

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into my soul, Mr. Cunningham, she said. I suppose it is the artist in you.

studied its architecture and intricate decoration

Art is only good at the moment it's done. After that it's dead. It's just so much dead shit. Artists are like people trying to hoard their shit.

Weaved a different story in my head Painted it like glitter in the swamp

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who are the world's working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward.

I am a performing artist; I perfomr admiration. 'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same

I am a performing artist; I perform admiration. 'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same

A poem requires a design--a sense of orderliness. Part of our pleasure in the poem is that it is a well-made thing. . . .