Quotes About Artistry

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

I've never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

By the work one knows the workman.

The life I live is my art work.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.