Quotes About Artistry

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.

Not the artist alone, but every creative individual whatsoever owes all that is greatest in his life to fantasy.

We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.

The task of a craftsman, they conclude, "is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.

To do it right, it is the most complicated thing I know how to make," Furrer explains. "And it's that challenge that drives me. I don't need a sword. But I have to make them.

Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, "oh, that's well written code." It's much like as if you were writing a poem.

Hearing a succession of mediocre singers does not add up to a single outstanding performance

There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where… but I hope [my work] makes clear that waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan. In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration.

David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

a New York Times column on the topic, David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years. I think there's an element in the slowness of the execution that adds to the possibility of producing something that will be durable in its expression, that will be considered important five centuries later.

things of great importance have to be slowly produced. I don't believe in speed in artistic production, and that goes with integration.

He has dark skin," she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, "because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.

Who changes their legal name to Yarn Goddess? I mean, for real.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.

Many believe the process of creativity is one of assembling thoughts and concepts, but highly creative people will tell you that the idea, the song, the image, was in them, and their task was to get it out, a process of discovery, not design. This

I want you to play me like a cello.

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. . Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place --- that there is something so human and expressive about it.

Are all movies books first?" "Just the best ones.

As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as we got bigger, people began to dissect the songs, like a frog from biology class until there was nothing left but guts- tiny parts, so much less than the sum.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.

Design is an unknown.