Quotes About Artistry

Our dedication- devotion- to craft should enlighten as it humbles us.

How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

He'd be working late in his studio tonight—alone. He was a man who disliked company, who held people in contempt, though he made his living immortalizing them.

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?

Maar ik moet zeggen dat ik mijn geduld verlies met fictie die iets probeert wat nog niet eerder is geprobeerd, liefst het met medium zelf.

Michael Jordan didn't become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn't become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not publishing's -

Shearing began to play his chords; they rolled out of the piano in great rich showers, you'd think the man wouldn't have time to line them up. They rolled and rolled like the sea.

Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form. [ Letter to Max E. Feckler , Oct. 26, 1914]

It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.

Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.

Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

I want to get better and take more risks. I need to sing with other people. I need to access parts of me that aren't being accessed in the Cocteau Twins.

I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.

'Vol. 3' is the most pleasing of our albums to me. And I want to keep making albums that are different from each other. And you can bet all our albums will have that twist that only Slipknot can do.

I want to treat every ingredient in a way that conveys its most pure qualities, but with a little bit of a dreamy twist.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.