Quotes About Artistry

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Music is what I do naturally.

Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.' Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.

Sometimes, it turned out, art was what you had to say, not how you said it.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness...

The best art always comes unbidden.

All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.

He is playing a bass part upon his cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another, from four o'clock in the afternoon until nearly the same hour next morning, for his third of the total income of one dollar per hour.

We should call on the Creator to show more modesty. He created the world in a frenzy of excitement. Instead of revising his rough drafts, he had his work printed straightaway. What a lot of contradictions there are in it. What a log of typing errors, inconsistencies in the plot, passages that are too long and wordy, characters that are entirely superfluous. But it is painful and difficult to cut and trim the living cloth of a book written and published in too much of a hurry

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

We all lead double lives. It's a privilege for the artist and a curse for the ordinary man. One has to get used to it. It's a terrible thing to know too much. In life, our words are improvisations and our actions careless mistakes that end up by becoming habits. Fate beign the distraction of the gods, I distract myself by evading questions that I never asked myself in the past. We are in the hands of the improbable, are we not, my dear Cosette? - Monsieur Verjat-

she focused on the pale blue yarn and the way the knitting needles dove in and out of the soft strands, creating every moment something that hadn't existed before.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

The world is my canvas and my camera is the perfect tool to capture everything around me. I always make it a habit to carry my camera with me so I will never suffer the regret of wishing I had.

At its core, Hip Hop is not just an art form; it is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the Arts.

You must see what He sees. Not the view of the mortal, but a glorious world washed clean in magical light and dazzling with colour. You must copy in miniature the world He has drawn. One where everything is carefully chosen, the profusion of nature simplified, men and women incomparably beautiful, everything as precious and perfect as He willed them to be.... The artist is closest of all to the Creator.