Quotes About Artistry

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on,' he wrote in describing his method, 'as long as something is said. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...

I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...

Some people are born with words flowing in their veins.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Art is the daughter of freedom.