Quotes About Artistry

The Lord done real good when he crafted Miss Adelaide Cowherd.

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

There's something about doing a job well that is akin to art.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Every time we demean ourselves we are talking badly about the Artist and the Model.

It looks like he's seducing the music out of the piano, and though I know nothing about piano performance, I can see that to be great, a pianist has to do just that… seduce the instrument, win it over, become part of the great, beautiful piano and the music itself.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

When you wake the town this morning, ring the bells as if you were the greatest musician on earth. Make each stroke count. Invent sounds you've never heard before. Reach deep down inside you for inspiration. Make your grandfather pround.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. —LARRY SMITH, TEDx, NOVEMBER 2011

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

That's what Sunny was beaming about. This was what she loved—the process of making art even more than the final product.

Nick Makoha's first full-length collection, Kingdom of Gravity (Peepal Tree £8.99), was the 2017 debut which most excited me. Focused on Uganda during the Idi Amin dictatorship, his poetry is charged with ethical sensibility. The lines protest as they sing "the song disturbed by helicopter blades…" but they don't simplify things: they explore, and complicate. Personal witness and artistry are one. The Guardian

musical but I can't string three notes together.

you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist.

I don't want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

When people say, 'I've told you fifty times', They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've written fifty rhymes', They make you dread that they'll recite them too

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.