Quotes About Artistry

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what drives anyone to be interested in the arts. I think it's a poetic gene; it's a wanting to go beyond.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I don't want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of melody myself.

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies.

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.

Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

Crooners and light chatter artists who now pollute the air with wisecracks and silly giggles, will go the way of all light timbers, and their places will be taken by real artists who interpret carefully planned programmes which have been designed to service the minds of men, as well as provide entertainment.

The man who builds a house is an artist; the man who tears it down is a junkman. If you are a person with a grievance the world will listen to your vitriolic "ravings," providing it does not "see you coming"; but, if you are a person with a message of friendliness and optimism, it will listen because it wishes to do so.

Sex energy is the creative energy of all genii. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder, or artist lacking in this driving force of sex.

Robust is when you care more about the few who like your work than the multitude who dislike it (artists); fragile when you care more about the few who dislike your work than the multitude who like it (politicians).

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

No hay una sola puntada en esa letra bordada que no haya sentido en su corazón.

If you want to know the real secret of Walt's success," longtime animator Ward Kimball would say, "it's that he never tried to make money. He was always trying to make something that he could have fun with or be proud of.

But as an artist, Ezra wanted to be more than just acceptable. He wanted to be exceptional. Because if he couldn't be exceptional, what was the point?

Well, at least the music was pretty.