Quotes About Artistry

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

The strength of an artist lies in how much of themselves they are prepared to reveal in their art.' Iain Cameron Williams, 2021, 'Other People's Dreams' to be published in 2022.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

I did a few opening-act gigs at United Nations and Water the Bush. I opened up for Digital Underground when they came to L.A. and

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe As he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

His songs now accompany television commercials and have been reinterpreted across the musical spectrum, from the British punk acts to jazz divas like Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones. Hank's songs, in fact, are almost everywhere. As the records grow smaller, Hank Williams grows bigger.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

My was life was completely consumed by my own creation.

The best artists are the greatest of criers.

The most skilled of writing always stems from that which is not so.

To be a writer is to gouge out one's mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.

What we make can survive us.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Language offers us a surprising, savage terrain full of pockets and peaks. Shakespeare invented words like crazy. Mark Twain wrote in dialect. Muhammad Ali rapped in rhythmic sentences. Junot Diaz mixes Spanish into his sentences like rum into fruit juice. Nicki Minaj spices her lyrics with slang.

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

He hung naked on the cross. I had not known—I had not thought. . . . The paintings, the carved crucifixes showed at the least a scrap of cloth. But this, I suddenly knew, was the respect and reverence of the artist. But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence. No more than I saw in the faces around us now.