Quotes About Artistry

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Art needs an operation

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.

The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.

hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers. What else can painting teach us about hacking?

the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such a birdy method may at first seem absurd to the forward-thinking nest maker, but soon it will be found that the pleasures of the project are not derived from efficiency.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

HCl is the formula for hydrochloric acid," the label began, and explained that this acid is an aid to human digestion. Then the unexpected detail: the see-through pipes were filled with human vomit, "donated by anonymous patients from a bulimic clinic." You admire the artistry and form, and then, told what it represented, you gaze with nauseated horror.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

Iba a tardar tanto en reducirla que al fin acabaría por enamorarse de su obra.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Vivir es una forma de no estar seguro, de no saber lo que vendrá después ni en qué forma. En el momento en que sepamos cómo, empezaremos a morir un poco. Los artistas nunca sabemos nada del todo. Suponemos. Podemos estar equivocados, pero aun así nos lanzamos de un salto a la oscuridad una y otra vez. AGNES DE MILLE

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi