Quotes About Artistry

Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.

Spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Sometimes life is like trying to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling on the backs on five thousand turtles.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good." Somerset Maugham.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all in this way. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

If the artists are so rich," replied Charlotte, "then tell me how it is that they are never able to escape from little obelisks, dwarf pillars, and urns for ashes? Instead of your thousand forms of which you boast, I have never seen anything but a thousand repetitions.

Creativity flourishes when we are allowed to express our uniqueness for the JOY of it. No competition, just the delight of CREATING.

All the beauty in the earth bears the fingerprint of the master creator.

You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Author unknown, c.1980s

Soul colors the artist so that the artist can color the canvas.

One should either be a work of Art, or wear a work of Art.

I craft so hard I sweat glitter.

He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry. On the other hand, he had not sacrificed strength. His conscious aim had been to increase his strength by avoiding excess of strength. Nor

every good artist paints what he is

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

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I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

The real poet has the last line in mind when he writes his first.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.