Quotes About Artistry

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait.... "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away.... Everything is a self-portrait.

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

I love to play a character. If I'm playing Cinderella or Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

Having mastered the long sword at an early age—for some a lifelong struggle!—Musashi would go on to master the use of two swords simultaneously, as well as the other popular weapons of his day: the manriki chain, the shuriken throwing star, archery, spear, and bo-staff. Still not satisfied, before the end of his life, Musashi also became a respected calligrapher, painter, sculptor, writer, and master of the cha-do tea ceremony.

I'm half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.

every obstacle should at first be put in the way of the aspiring artist, as it is only those you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.

Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Wanneer de schrijver niets anders doet dan zijn ervaringen en hersenschimmen neerschrijven, is hij geen schrijver maar een verteller: iemand, die iets verliest. Van belang is alleen wat er op het papier gebeurt, in de vormgeving, datgene, wat hij niet had voorzien, datgene, wat hij niet wist, datgene, wat hij niet was, datgene, wat hij vindt: dat alleen is creatie.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a whole bunch of reports. What's in your head does not count, not for sculpture, not for book writing. Pencil on paper is what matters. Words on paper, pages and pages, chapter after chapter.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.