Quotes About Artistry

He koude songes make and wel endyte.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

God creates; I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it--from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others can do.

You see a little bit of Astaire in everybody's dancing--a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire's originally.

It is the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician. If the illusion fails the ballet fails, no matter how well a program note tells the audience that it has succeeded.

See the music, hear the dance.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

'Tis God gives skill,But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.

Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself had watched a young fox catching mice, an elegant newly minted fox, straight from the hand of God, brilliantly ruddy, with black stockings and a white-tipped brush. The fox heard and turned. I saw its intense vivid mask, its liquid amber eyes. Then it was gone. An image of such beauty and such mysterious sense. The child wept and knew himself an artist.

Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of expression.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

That was how his pen finally designed his sculpture; in the center the weak, confused, arrogant, soon to be destroyed young man holding cup a loft, behind him the idyllic child, clear-eyed, munching his grapes, symbol of joy ; between them the tiger skin. The Bacchus, hollow within himself, flabby, reeling, already old; the Satyr, eternally young and gay, symbol of man's childhood and naughty innocence

I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.

Art destroys the life.

Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty stomach is better than a full one, Van Gogh, and a broken heart is better than happiness. Never forget that!

Do you suppose the potter is content with mental creation? Do you suppose the idea is enough?

Our country has produced exceptional men and women: two Nobel laureates—Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral—the singers/composers Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra, the pianist Claudio Arrau, the painter Roberto Matta, and the novelist José Donoso, to mention a few who come to mind.

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