Quotes About Artistry

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

Kay himself has conceded that technological wizards generally fall into two categories: the Michelangelo types who dream of Sistine Chapels and then actually spend years building them, and the da Vincis, who have a million ideas but seldom finish anything themselves.

Then solar systems, galaxies, supernovas, infinite space itself will become elements of a final masterwork--a never-ending festival, a celestial amusement park in which every exploding star and spinning electron is part of the empyreal choreography.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I was not afraid; only fascinated, confident to that he was my own creation.

Too long have we hidden away here in the atelier courts.

Sofia visualised shining strings emanating from each of her fingers and connected with the souls of her puppets. All she had to do to get them to perform was to lift a finger and tweak a string.

Sometimes, it seemed almost as if this book wrote itself.

I had already gathered that the creative people in Sacramante were held in an almost holy regard.

I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!

There is a way you can make incredible music without following the so-called formula.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I get the feeling of selling soaps.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!