Quotes About Artistry

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

People will know instinctively that someone who creates things is awesome.

Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky.

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

So imagine: Dungeons and Dragons [is] a table filled with artists, whether they're painters, whether they're actors, whether they're poets … - whatever they are, they are able to live in this world of imagination.

I've noticed that women often respond to him in this way - with an unthreatened openness. He generally likes women and you can see this in his photographs. There is nothing aggressive, prurient, or objectifying about them. Their sensuality is theirs alone. It never seems imposed.

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwanderer, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

And yet, my dear sister, to what an extent doctors, engineers, in short lots of people, have more practical, stabler ideas than artists! As for me, I often think with a deep sigh that I ought to have been better than I am. Let me stop talking of it at once, or else it might discourage me. Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future.

And this will remain my policy, and it is quite possible that I shall give up my studio before long and go live in a peasant's cottage, so as not to hear or see educated people - as they call themselves - any longer.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' .

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.