Quotes About Artistry

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

if I can't write poetry, at least perhaps I can try to think and feel like a poet.

One day he decided that his liking for poetry could not be fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did.

The painter and the dancer had similar sensibilities: they were responsive, instinctual, imaginative, sympathetic, astute and unstudied.

A medieval cathedral could consume a hundred man-centuries in its construction, yet was never used as a dwelling, or for any recognizably useful purpose.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

these were days when people still made things and used machines, instead of the opposite).

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO

Making our art, we make artful lives.

Remember, there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through you";

real artists can survive the most hostile environments and yet find their true calling like homing pigeons. That's hogwash. Many real artists bear children too early or have too many, are too poor or too far removed culturally or monetarily from artistic opportunity to become the artists they really are.

We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.

We all know how broke-crazy-promiscuous-unreliable artists are. And if they don't have to be, then what's my excuse?

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific, an origin from which work flows.

Real" artists are people who have learned to create despite their fears. They

Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT

Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self-nurturing.

You are likely to find yourself avoiding your artist dates. Recognize this resistance as a fear of intimacy—self-intimacy

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.

As a rule of thumb, it is best to just admit that there is always one action you can take for your creativity daily.

Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.

We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.

each of us is our own country, an interesting place to visit. It is the accurate mapping out of our own creative interests that invites the term original. We are the origin of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, originality is the process of remaining true to ourselves.