Quotes About Artistry

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Style… is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

Poetry is an art of economy.

Art does not come from commandments, or follow logic or the consensus opinion of scientific experts, but springs fresh every time from stone and wood and green sprig of earth. It is the stuff that makes good gardeners, hunters, farmers, builders, carpenters, poets, bards, sculptors, painters, drawers, healers, physicians, and herbalists.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.

Schubert is said to have told a friend that his own creative process consisted in "remembering a melody" that neither he nor anyone else had ever thought of before.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

You're telling me that because of the Internet, and the availability of every experience, every whim, every tool, sudden everyone's an artist? But here's the thing: if everyone's an artist, then no one is.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer.

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...

Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!

The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

The most beautiful things can only be created by the most free minds!