Quotes About Artistry

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

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

No veo otro camino para que los peluqueros invadieran, como tanto lo han deseado, el oficio de aquéllos (los zapateros), logrando hacer brillar su arte en ambos extremos anatómicos. Por otra parte, el peinado es una manera de pensar por fuera de la cabeza, por lo que debieran sentirse orgullosos los artesanos que tomando la navaja al dejar las tijeras, nos tienen tan acobardados y sitiados como para despojarnos de nuestro cabello sin protesta ni intento de fuga

But Sparrow remembered every word as if the brief letter was a poem or Bach partita. He could stand up and deliver it now, word for word, note for note.

HER FINGERS RAN LIGHTLY over the beams, stroked the threads of the weft like a stable master greeting a prize horse. She asked no questions; she seemed to absorb the loom's workings by touch alone.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

Music is what I do, Christ is why I do it

There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.

I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo

That's okay, I said. We're writers. We make things up.

Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.

Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every artist should know: as Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. Garp did not write faster than anyone else, or more; he simply always worked with the idea of completion in mind.

No, it's never easier. The new book doesn't know the first four were ever written.

That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all—even on a sunny Indian summer day—it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible.

What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws?

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

And who knows? Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility.

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

An artist, when sketching, looks at a landscape and then a sketch pad, repeating the process until an image appears, depicting, but not duplicating, what's there. Landscape and sketch pad guide the artist's hand, but no two artists will sketch the scene in just the same way.

striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.