Quotes About Artistry

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

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.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

I'm more than happy to say that I am a part of the return of Rock n' Roll.And that what we have to say means so much to these amazing people.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

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T. S. Eliot, who remarked in one of his essays that immature poets imitate, mature poets steal).

The little children of my brain may be weakly enough, and may be sadly in want of a helping hand to aid them in their first attempts at walking on the stage of this great world; but, at any rate, they are not borrowed children.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination, the Divine Vision.

All great artists are doubters.

Poets are damned, but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.