Quotes About Artistry

When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and just settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us. We retire as the self-conscious author and become something else - the vehicle for self-expression. When we are just the vehicle, the storyteller and not the point of the story, we often write very well - we certainly write more easily.

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

caricaturists and rodeo clowns be included in that special group of gifted performers?

The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses.

But the poet interprets and rushes to the cosmic expression of his vision, as the clown covers his manhood and disguises his tragedy.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Just as my fingers on these keysMake music, so the self-same soundsOn my spirit make a music, too.

They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.

The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar." And they said then, "But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.

Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Let us together desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.

Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden.

Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

That, right there, is a beautiful question for the ages: What do you want to say? Why does it need to be said? What if you could say it in a way that has never before been done? How might you do that?

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.

But good records seem to get to the people who need them the most. I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly." Petty

I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly.