Quotes About Artistry

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

It is important to use your hands, that is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.

Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?

J'ai toujours fait mes vers en m'observant les faire.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

Ce n'était ni le Diable ni le bon Dieu, c'était Arthur Rimbaud, c'est-à-dire un très grand poète.

I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. You can't discover that in the raw. ~ Leonard Cohen

Real writing, I was beginning to realize, was more like laying bricks than waiting for lightning to strike. It was painstaking. It was manual labor. And sometimes, sometimes if you kept putting the bricks down and let your hands just go on bleeding, and didn't look up and didn't stop for anything, the lightning came. Not when you prayed for it, but when you did your work.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The first prerogative of any artist, in any medium, is to make a fool of himself.

I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.

Her sentimental sissy eyes watched as they turned her virginal tablecloth embroidered with so much love into a mayhem of murder and drool. Her seamstress sissy eyes saw the off-white linen turned into a violet-colored crime sheet, the drenched shroud of a nation where her angels and birds were drowning.