Quotes About Artistry

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

He has artistry, he repeated. Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.

Strings and blades are your domain, Mercurio. We'll prevail on your for a song.

I do not sing songs. I sing dreams, and they are nothing. And since you'll have me sing nothing, I need not sing at all.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

A volte scriveva, ma era un'occupazione che lo stancava un po', e poi non concepiva l'idea di gustarsi la gioia di pensare mettendo per iscritto le fantasticherie della mente, a meno che quella fatica non gli avesse permesso di guadagnarsi da vivere. Era convinto che in genere le idee più felici non tollerano di essere espresse, giacché perdono tutta la loro originaria freschezza e appassiscono non appena vengono affidate alla penna. (L'inferno)

Copying is out of the question; only fools and impostors copy. No, the thing is to produce something as good, if possible, out of your own resources. And so begins the strange torture of the blank sheet of paper, where you must open a window that is not the one I spotted just now but one equally insistent in its truthfulness.

And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence. (page 402)

Vos me dirás que aquí hay grandes poetas, y es cierto. Yo he dicho que la poesía no es un mérito humano, sino una fatalidad que se padece. Aquí hay un buen montón de hombres atacados de poesía, mientras que te invito a que me recuentes los creadores activos, es decir, los inteligentes.

me es amargo entrar en un ámbito donde alguien que vive bellamente lo ha dispuesto todo como una reiteración visible de su alma

lo lúdico es también cómplice del poeta en muchos casos.

we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I am an artist, that doesn't want to be an artist

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

If there was one thing I learned from Lydia and the rest of the Twisted Sisters, it was that artists do not cower. They live to make statements

she appears to be wearing her clothes simply to get on with life, rather than as a means to display her brother's consummate artistry.