Quotes About Artistry

Poets don't run out of material the way novelists do because they don't depend on material in the same way.

Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After all the training, technique, use of breath, and placement of sound, it boils down to an emotional response to music and lyrics---and the way they touch one's heart and soul

Again, and yet again, I looked back at the actor's hands, comparing them with my own; and there was no difference between them. Yet strangely the hands of the man on the stage were indescribably beautiful, while those on my knees were but ordinary hands.

by a new burlesque trick: fish swivels affixed to her pasties. The mechanism allowed Finnell to pinwheel her tassels in any direction, from any position, at any speed

If I can't play music that people appreciate, then I want to play music that people love.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.