Quotes About Artistry

She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only accepted any request I made, but far exceeded my own ideas as to how it might look. She was an artist who sculpted in cake and painted in frosting.

Io sono un artista e ciò significa che posso essere egocentrico quanto mi pare.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Een James Bond-boek is stom maar opwindend, terwijl een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur even stom maar daarbij ook nog vervelend is.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

It's fun to take a pile of raw materials and make something out of them. The more demanding the work, the greater the satisfaction.

She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles.

Like the street his gallery was on, Fortin had an attractive front, hiding quite a foul interior. He was opportunistic. He fed on the talent of others. Got rich on the talent of others. While most of the artists themselves barely scraped by, and took all the risks.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

Clearly, I'm not trying to write songs for the radio.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

Writin' songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film. Daniel

Creating music implies the desire to give.

I don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions." #LucilleClifton