Quotes About Artistry

Thus the creative process is less linear than recursive. How many iterations it goes through, how many loops are involved, how many insights are needed, depends on the depth and breadth of the issues dealt with.

Because for better or for worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from the canvas to see whether the composition works, the poet rereads the verse with a more critical eye, the scientist sits down to do the calculations or run the experiments. Most lovely insights never go any farther, because under the cold light of reason fatal flaws appear. But if everything checks out, the slow and often routine work of elaboration begins

Saat olla kiihkeä ja tulinen, mutta kiihkosi ja tulesi on valauduttava kiinteään, vakuuttavasti taiteelliseen muotoon, muuten se merkitsee vain sohimista. Harkinnan ja rauhan alta kuultava kiihkeys tekee voimakkaamman vaikutuksen kuin holtiton tunteittensa purkaminen

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

See, music is about style.

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos

En realidad, mi verdadero problema era que nunca había estado enamorada y, por tal motivo, mi forma de bailar carecía del profundo sentimiento que sólo se consigue después de experimentar una pasión amorosa.

Be creative. Thus we contribute and thus we elevate our souls.

When I said "a lot of work," I moved my hands apart to represent all the work. He stared at the space between my palms and asked if I played the accordion. I could feel the accordion between my hands and how impressed he would be if I said yes.

?ovjek živi u svojim vlastitim zatvorenim svjetovima, ima svoje vlastite ljepote, sovja vlastita živ?ana razdraženja, intenzivna, a ?esto neobi?no zanosna (i iskreno lijepa), ali tu ljepotu, tu istinitost svog vlastitog (estetskog) zanosa predati drugima, to je teško, a ?esto i neizvedivo. Upravo nemogu?e!

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble with the others.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.