Quotes About Artistry

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

I hate show business.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Het juiste woord, de precisie van de formulering, (...) verschaft de schrijver die 'heimelijke zorgeloosheid', het geluksgevoel. Citaat uit 'De vreugde van het formuleren

Artists are the people who stand on the frontier of the transformation of the unknown into knowledge.

Artists must be contending with something they do not understand, or they are not artists. Instead, they are posers, or romantics (often romantic failures), or narcissists, or actors (and not in the creative sense).

Why is the second novel by a breakout debut writer, or the second album by an explosively popular band, so seldom as good as the first? It's not, Or not entirely, because most artists only have one thing to say. It's because artistic success is an amalgam of talent and fortune, like everything else in life, and thus subject to regression to the mean.

Wahrhaftig, in solchen Zeiten wie diesen sind die Gärtner die einzigen, die echten Künstler.

Vieja estaría pero se iba a morir cantando y con las plumas puestas.

A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no es suyo sólo. La conciencia étnica, forjadora del mito, ha cumplido antes que él naciera, el trabajo principal; ha creado los objetos bellos. Su papel queda reducido a la escrupulosidad de un artífice.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Not every musician should be obligated to reassure us that we are not zombies.

when God made time He made a ruddy great lot of it, and, when He made people, His artistry was not limited to This Sort and None Other, that Love is not a matter of who puts what where but of wanting only goodness and respectful kindliness for the loved one. There is no sort of love that can never find its home. Life has its cruelties but it is not as cruel as that. [Bram Stoker]

It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the "copy.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

After secretly observing the unstudied grace of her movements, the most celebrated picture-maker of the province burned the implements of his craft, and began life anew as a trainer of performing elephants.