Quotes About Artistry

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

Larry Clinton and his vocalist, Bea Wain,

Un artista, uno scrittore, non crea le sue opere per firmarle, ma per metterle al mondo.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Malcolm's carved a fork." She ran her finger the length of the smooth wood before offering it to Elesyria for her inspection. "A small fork. Just like I told him I wanted.

Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Tota novel·la és convencional. La gràcia consisteix a fer que no ho sembli.

My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Alfonso Cuaron

Michael Gambon

Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with others. But if you're any good at all, you end up doing it for less money than it's worth.

We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us.

The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.