Quotes About Artistry

But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Find hard to talk to stranger. Terrible at chit-chat. Think people look at me funny then I start panic think have to be clever all of time. They not understand I artist, not entertainer! Magic of Bigfoot what happen when people not looking.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

Where would I be if not for your wild heart? I ask this not from love, but selfishly— how could I live? How could I make my art?

One thing that old blues records teach you, is that even people with very limited skills can play very personal, distinctive, and appealing music that has nothing to do with the extent of their technique. It was their artistry. It was their feeling.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Write a book, not the book.

La alegría de poder subsistir de la actividad que nos apasiona y no estar sentados ocho horas en una oficina, llegar a casa, cenar, hablar cinco minutos con la pareja, ver televisión, dormir y despertar al día siguiente a las siete para volver a lo mismo. Con o sin éxito, crear se convierte en una adicción.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Elisa lives in a world of her own devising. That's obvious from the shoes. Zelda imagines Elisa's perception as one of those dioramas she saw in a museum, perfect little realms, breakable but not if you walk softly.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but its creation is in the mind and hand of the artist.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The writer in his work must be like God in his creation—invisible and all-powerful: he must be everywhere felt, but never seen.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Yo quisiera forjar para cada uno de vosotros una maravillosa estrofa tejida de frases exquisitas, en la que os pudiérais envolver con orgullo, como en un manto de púrpura. Yo quisiera poder cincelar la forma que ha de conteneros, como se cincela el vaso de oro que ha de guardar un preciado perfume.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.