Quotes About Artistry

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

And the thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches, miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.