Quotes About Artistry

Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

That's my little secret, Christina," he says. "I am always painting myself.

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.

Yamamoto said he thought you had to be able to hear how something did not work as part of a bigger thing to hear how it did and it was precisely because people couldn't hear that that they were willing to let movements be taken out of pieces.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain

Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.

There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

You are what you write.

las manos son aún más bellas cuando no imitan nada.

Another word for creativity is courage.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc." -Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.