Quotes About Artistry

Her father was a magician. She assisted him. I'm sure she's quite adept at sleight of

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.

He Said. David, you must remember that in all the functions we have in life, art is the one place where we can crash our plane and walk away from it. And that's so right. Creating something is the one area where you mustn't have caution or inhibition. If you make a startling, disastrous mess, it's fine, because you can reach out and reevaluate and plunge off into another direction. Bowie on Eno and art Interview Magazine September 1995

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. If I hadn't learned how to be a musician and writer, it wouldn't have mattered what I did. I never knew too many rock people. I would get to a place, some nightclub or other, and see all these famous rockers bonding.

What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and that if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

La belleza no es un objetivo de los deportes competitivos, pero los deportes de alto nivel son escenarios privilegiados para la expresión de la belleza humana. La relación se aproxima a la que existe entre la valentía y la guerra

Vi è stato un tempo nel quale il mistero e la meraviglia dell'artigianato avevano un giusto riconoscimento nel mondo, un tempo nel quale l'immaginazione e la fantasia si mescolavano a tutti gli oggetti prodotti dall'uomo; e in questi giorni ogni artigiano era quel che oggi definiremmo un artista.

En résumé, [à toutes les époque], le meilleur artiste restait encore un artisan, le plus humble des artisans était un artiste.

Their singing wasn't particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.

Singers are the happiest horses' asses.

great while ago the world began,      With hey-ho, the wind and the rain;   But that's all one, our play is done,      And we'll strive to please you every day.     Exit

she did lie In her pavillion--cloth-of-gold of tissue-- O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I could set my ten commandments in your face.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me

Since I've written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy

you know that I am, as it were, completely immersed in Musique - it is on my mind all day long - I love to plan - study - reflect on it (...).

If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.

The organ is in my eyes and ears the king of all instruments.

Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.

If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing. If it's good, I'll be envious and hate it all the more.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.