Quotes About Artistry

If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

All good song-writers have no more than half a dozen good tunes in their systems, and if they have that many, they are liberally blessed.

Brahms writes music. I just write songs.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

A great artist is never poor.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

This is what I wanted to hear from you: confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!

Whatever person you decide to photograph, or whatever thing, you must go on photographing it always, exclusively, at every hour of the day and night. Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images." - from "The Adventure of a Photographer

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.

Su ánimo pérfido se expansionaba sobre todo con la cocina. Era excelente cocinando, ya que no le faltaba ni prontitud ni fantasía, cualidades principales para una cocinera.

La mia fiducia nel futuro della letteratura consiste nel sapere che ci sono cose che solo la letteratura può dare coi suoi mezzi specifici.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

I am a writer, not a transcriber.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.