Quotes About Artistry

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

Art is the absence of fear.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

The enemy of fear is creativity.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever.

We are very slow in recognising in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the type which is labelled 'great talent' in our museum of general ideas. Simply because that physiognomy is new and strange, we can find in it no resemblance to what we are accustomed to call talent. We say rather originality, charm, delicacy, strength; and then one day we add up the sum of these, and find that it amounts simply to talent.

in the state of mind in which we "observe" we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create.

I was sensible also of their voices, more disquieting still, perhaps (for not only does a voice offer the same strange and sensuous surfaces as a face, it issues from that unknown, inaccessible region the mere thought of which sets the mind swimming with unattainable kisses), their voices each like the unique sound of a little instrument into which the player put all her artistry and which was found only in her possession.

Bressant's voice or of Thiron's in L'Aventurière or in the Gendre de M. Poirier.

Et elle m'a répondu textuellement : « Il faut toujours dire une chose comme si on était en train de la composer soi-même. » Si vous y réfléchissez c'est monumental, cette réponse !

Les grands littérateurs n'ont jamais fait qu'une seule oeuvre.

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

Great chefs have three things in common: first, they accept and respect mother nature as a true artist; second, everything they do is an extension of them as a true person; and third, they give you insight into the world they were born into.