Quotes About Artistry

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention.

It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

It was not even necessary for people to know how to sing to be considered rock musicians. Bob Dylan had no clue, but that did not stop him from becoming one of the greatest artists ever.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

I'm not into business at all.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Somewhere on the way up I got attached to the guitar.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

There probably are very few perfect tracks—tracks that never grow old and never cease to cause wonder. From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon.

Masterful work always comes from putting a higher importance on originality over marketability.

A clever tattooist produces artistic work, creativity in living with knowledge and insight to his craft.

An artist is only as good as their morgue. When I say morgue, I'm talking about the artist's visual library of references.

You're only as good as your morgue... An artist is only as good as their morgue. When I say morgue, I'm talking about the artist's visual library of references.

intentions than ability when it came to coloring inside the lines. And

If you could explain something perfectly, then you'd never need art.

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece . True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que crees antes que nadie.

Es el intelecto del genio lo que reverenciamos? [...] Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que lo crees antes que nadie. No es la belleza lo que admiramos, ni la fuerza del intelecto, ni la inventiva, ni la estética, ni la capacidad misma. El mayor talento que creemos que puede tener un hombre debe ser la novedad.

Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.