Quotes About Artistry

You are not making art, but art is being revealed through you.

Trombone players have a terrible thirst,' he explained. 'You could blow out your soul in a trombone.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I do love country music.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can't write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don't select. While you sketch, don't inspect. While you write the first draft, don't reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.

How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

You may be all too conscious of your own blemishes and feel like that imperfect, rejected block (or an imperfect blockhead), but the Master Artist, who knows what you're made of better than you do, takes your worst flaws and incorporates them into the beauty of his creation-you!

Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it's even considered their best stuff.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.

A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you loved to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.

She's just a baby," Camille said. "She's an artist, just like us; she just doesn't know it yet." "She's a baby, Caleb." "She's a Fang," he replied. "That supersedes everything else." They both looked at Annie, who was watching them, smiling, a beautiful, glowing, movie star of a baby. Though the Fangs could not be sure, Annie seemed to be saying, "Count me in.

In the car, driving home from the airport, the Fangs did not speak a single word. It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

Any day acting is an amazing day.

Neil Young once said that it's more about having an authentic voice than a good voice, though of course Neil has a great voice.

We'd have to start wearing long wigs and eye shadow and glitter pants." "Okay, okay, well, that's life,

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

In any medium, I also start out assuming—even planning—that I'll delete the first thing I do, whether it's a paragraph or the first few rows of a scarf. That makes those first steps far less precious and therefore less intimidating.

But merian, so often able to slide by the rules somehow, held on to her specialised tools: her book of notes, her paints, her expensive vellum--carta non nata, skin from unborn lambs, that held the color like nothing else. She brought her mixing materials and pigments.