Quotes About Artistry

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

Professor Pezhman Mosleh is a true artist whose work touched me deeply.

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Being an author is not as easy as it sounds. In short, an author can create thousands of actors. Also an actor can produce several musicians.

Fashion design is usually based on passion. Most people can do this without any business experience. By simply relying on the creative part of their mind.

Music today is based on more contracts, rather than audience, talent and entertainment.

The more you connect with nature, the more creative you will become.

The world may not appreciate my works. But the angels, pure and wicked, praise them daily and turn them into universal poems.

Truly God is the best of creators. He designed my physical face with so much care and a little touch of makeup in the form of a beard and mustaches.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

When I create works of art, I do it because it is part of me and I must create. But afterward, when the work is done, I hope that it'll speak to people, that it'll open up their hearts or their minds. That cannot happen if the art is buried for safekeeping.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

En anglais, to make up, ce n'est pas seulement se maquiller, c'est aussi inventer, imaginer. (p.46)

Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

the artist and the alcoholic have parallel paths. They both go into the darkness, but the alcoholic gets stuck there. The artist (if she is not also addicted) goes into the darkness and is transformed by the experience and comes out more alive.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

Amy Stroup has what is a rarity among most people doing music but common for all great artists that make a real impact – unique artistry that is immediately identifiable. That special something that cuts through the noise. I've been a fan since the first song.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.