Quotes About Artistry

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Antes que poeta hubiera preferido ser un buen banderillero

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Det var fullt mulig å være personlig selv om du hadde fem andre musikere i ryggen.

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

WILL is burning midnight oil- literally and metaphorically. His quill has already covered a dozen sheets. He is inspired.

I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of years this precious seed, and that then one day the first book would appear, as had earlier, at the appointed hour, the first tooth. 53

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Each artist seems thus to be the native of an unknown country, which he himself has forgotten, different from that from which will emerge, making for the earth, another great artist.

With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit?

Beauty cannot be forced. It alone decides when it will come and sometimes it is the last thing we expect and the very last thing to arrive. Creative artists know this well. Great skill and inspiration set the context or scene where beauty might emerge. But it is not the mind of the artist alone that can determine whether beauty will arrive or not.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them.

One man's thoughts can never be expressed by another: and the difference between the spirit of touch of the man. who is inventing, and the man who is obeying directions, is often all the difference between a great and common work of art.

The first and absolute condition of the thing's ever becoming saleable is, that we shall make it without wanting to sell it; nay, rather with a determination not to sell it at any price, if once we get hold of it. Try to make your Art popular, cheap –

the assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.