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Quotes About Artistry

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.
~ Vera Nazarian
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearanceî
~ Victor Borge
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
~ Victor Borge
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
~ Victor Hugo
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
~ Victor Hugo
Write with love, write with joy, and write with pride.
~ Unknown
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
~ Victoria Abril
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
~ Johannes Brahms
I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.
~ Unknown
It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.
~ Unknown
Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.
~ Torkom Saraydarian
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
~ Jehane Noujaim
We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.
~ Daphne Guinness
There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
~ Alexander McQueen
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.
~ Renzo Gracie
I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.
~ Oscar de la Renta
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
~ William Hazlitt
You manufacture beauty with your mind
~ Augusten Burroughs
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
~ James Whistler
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
~ Michael Stipe
I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.
~ Donald Trump
The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.
~ Unknown