Quotes About Artistry

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Art should never try to be popular.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

What I'm good at is making art.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

The artist is justified by his art.

I can concentrate on my art.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."