Quotes About Artistry

O instrumento tem dentro de si um mundo, teórico e físico. Só que demonstrá-lo, ninguém o faz, do ponte de vista prático-musical. O mesmo se passa com os instrumentos de sopro. E com todas as pessoas... agora em sentido figurado. Conheço pessoas que possuem dentro de si todo um universo, incomensurável. Mas fazer com que ele saia cá para fora, isso ninguém o faz. Seria o fim. Mas adiante...

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. "oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.

He wasn't certain whether he was a good or bad person. Whether he was altruistic. Whether he was demonic. But he was certain of one thing. He was an artist. And for that he would never apologize.

Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums.

It is said that children do not distinguish between living and inanimate objects; I believe they do. A child imparts a doll or tin soldier with magical life-breath. The artist animates his work as the child his toys.

Oh take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together." His manifesto as an artist.

To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

Most of the time, it seemed as if the piece was fully formed in his mind. He was not one for improvising. It was more a question of executing something he saw in a flash.

I'm sure I could write endlessly about nothing. If only I had nothing to say.

I was no actress; I drew no line between life and art.

But the urge to express myself was my strongest desire, and my siblings were my first eager coconspirators in the harvesting of my imagination

Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose,

I rationalized that there are only so many notes and therefore only so many combination of notes, so it stood to reason that there are so many songs.

Unmitigated Blackness is simply not giving a fuck. Clarence Cooper, Charlie Parker, Richard Pryor, Maya Deren, Sun Ra, Mizoguchi, Frida Kahlo, black-and-white Godard, Céline, Gong Li, David Hammons, Björk, and the Wu-Tang Clan in any of their hooded permutations.

Monet is only an eye—but what an eye!

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Every Artist is a Cannibal,every Poet is a Thief.All kill for inspiration and sing about their grief

There are three things needed to be a great photographer. In this order. You and your keen eye, a great lens and a camera to make the shot.

Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement.