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Quotes About Artistry

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
~ Steve Lacy
I came across this guy named DJ Grumble and I just really liked his beats because they were different. I felt like they spoke to me.
~ Ari Lennox
I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
~ Charles Kelley
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
~ Ben Whishaw
One of the things that defined me is that I spoke in my songs very loudly, the negative messages, and I already managed to dominate commercial music.
~ Anuel AA
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.
~ William Gaddis
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
~ Ray Manzarek
When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.
~ Trixie Mattel
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
~ Tim Burton
I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.
~ Riccardo Tisci
Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
~ Arturo Toscanini
So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to.
~ Cholly Atkins
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field.
~ Misty Copeland
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
~ Jack Kirby
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.
~ Eugene Ormandy
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
~ Walter Mosley
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
~ William Morris
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
~ Aesop Rock
Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
~ James Cagney
There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.
~ Thomas MacDonagh
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.
~ Eddie Murphy
A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
~ Og Mandino