Quotes About Artistry

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.

I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.

Was she very beautiful, Samuel? To you she was because you built her. I don't think you ever saw her--only your own creation.

This must be a good book," he wrote in Working Days on June 10, 1938. "It simply must. I haven't any choice. It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted—slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges.

Their houses are the size of small airplane hangars; their carved

Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

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

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.