Quotes About Artistry

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they're repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

El único problema sería, tal vez, que la alfarería se haga a corto plazo por computadora o por internet. O por robots. Que Dios (que no existe) nos asista».

Some people anesthetized with booze; Woody wrote.

And yet there is space for human creativity to creep between those iron bars. We bend them, we slip through them from time to time.

This was something few followers of fashion ever saw – the long hours of hard, highly skilled labour that went into the production of each item of haute couture. Beauty came at the cost of tired eyes, aching shoulders and worn fingers.

Prospero is man-the-artist, or man-the-scholar: Ariel and Caliban represent his ethereal and material selves—the one airy, imaginative, and swift; the second earthy, gross, and appetitive.

We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.

What really matters is not the pencil but the brain of the person holding it.

Judy, of course, doesn't stand in the ruins; she is the ruin. In this way she enthralled a generation of gay men, singing her way out of suffering while still bearing the inescapable marks of damage.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Copying lies at the heart of creativity.

To develope [sic] the powers of the Creator is our proper employment—and to imitate Creativeness by combination our most exalted and self-satisfying Delight.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

He shows, however accidentally, that the devices and conventions we have learned to respond to do not necessarily solve or even do anything. More than any artist I can think of, Wiseau proves Northrop Frye's belief that all conventions are, at heart, insane.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself

When you write, bleed copiously from an open wound. Write from the depths of your heart.