Quotes About Artistry

Palming separates the men from the boys!

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?