Quotes About Artistry

When he played the guitar, the music was in his head and in his heart.

Were those really going to be the final words of fiction I wrote?

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

The technical afterthoughts of a truly great one can appear to be divine inspiration to the lesser artist. When

The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

Artists today are in the same situation as a chimpsnzee placed in front of a Steinway Grand Piano.

He opened the box and saw a tiny cake shaped like a bird's nest in three small round layers of tender, browned-butter vanilla cake with an apricot filling. A "nest" border of piped rum and mocha buttercream enclosed a clutch of pale blue marzipan eggs and a sugar-paste feather. The complicated yin and yang of rum and mocha, the "everybody loves" vanilla, Mr. Social white chocolate, tart and witty apricot, and artistic marzipan- all said "Gavin" to me.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.

It has taken a long time for me to really dress as the artist that I am: I'm an indie girl, I like experimental, I like things to be subverted. Details are the fun part.