Quotes About Artistry

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

The covers are rugged hand-laid paper of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from living volcanic rock on some island known only to aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast travel bores. An

Life is a creation, not a discovery

Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.

He was also perpetually developing configurations of straight lines that deceive the viewer in their apparent readability as plastic forms, with walls and openings, only to become something entirely different as we look at them. Physical impossibility in the guise of the plausible was his elixir.

You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You've led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

I am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to elaborate on the ending.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!