Quotes About Artistry

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You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

his jest implies: "Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music.

eigentlich jeder irdischen Leistung aufgetan gesehen: Konzentration, die Zusammenfassung aller Kräfte, aller Sinne, das Außer-sich-Sein, das Außerder-Welt-Sein jedes Künstlers. Ich hatte etwas gelernt für mein ganzes Leben.

had he been only a hardworking craftsman all his life, fitting colours together as a labourer constructs a building out of stones?

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

L'arte è questo: scappare dalla normalità che ti vuole mangiare.

R&b and pop presented by the bay area cofield twins that brings Duality to their audience

Knitting is still trying to teach me That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.

A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.