Quotes About Artistry

Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy — just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

Nothing in the world terrifies me more than to have the words stop coming. If I can't write, I could be of no use.

Songwriters are the architects of the music industry. Without a songwriter there could not, and would not, be a music industry. We create the blueprint.

Songwriters are the salt of the Earth.

Solitude, and misery, may be necessary for a certain kind of work. You have to feel it first and if you've felt it you can just write the thing without explaining anything about it.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

Actors are liars. Writers, too. The whole lot of them, even the horn players and the fortune-tellers and the freaks and the strongmen. Even the ladies with rings in their noses and high heels on their feet playing violins all along the Pier and the lie they are all singing and dancing and saying is We can get the old world back again .

I didn't study the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña because I needed a sample of the "Chicano experience" like a vitamin supplement. I studied these writers and artists because they were the most interesting thinkers.

But the pods also held the things people had created—the finest examples of the artistry and the ingenuity of our own species. How could we be so creative and so destructive at the same time?

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree. (from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is one reason for his almost universal appeal. He changes each of his readers into a poet or an artist.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I am writing like an angel

E poi che cosa credeva, il signorino Bruno, che fare il calzolaio non presentasse dei lati interessanti? Qualsiasi attività umana ne presenta. Basta esercitarla con passione, riuscire a conoscerla nei suoi segreti.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

El hombre es más artista que la naturaleza.

Atunci de ce v? obosiÈ›i explicând ceea ce am spus eu, în loc s? m? întreceÈ›i È™i s? m? desfiinÈ›aÈ›i cu alte opere? Dac? am spus bine ceea ce am spus, pentru ce o spuneÈ›i voi din nou într-un mod mizerabil? Dac? alÈ›ii nu pricep vorbele mele, merit? oare s?-i faceÈ›i s? le priceap?, chiar aÈ™a cum le-am însemnat È™i le-am gravat eu în serile cele mai spumeg?toare ale inspiraÈ›iei mele?

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.