Quotes About Artistry

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

Trust your creativity.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind of poetry I was seeking in my prose, word to be laid against word in just a certain way, a kind of word color, a march of words and sentences, the color to be squeezed out of simple words, simple sentence construction.

What I as a man want is to be able, some time in my life, to do something well?to do some piece of work finely just for the sake of doing it?to know the feel of a thing growing into a life of its own under my fingers, eh?

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.