Quotes about Artistry
O for ten years, that I may overwhelmMyself in poesy; so I may do the deedThat my own soul has to itself decreed.
— John Keats
As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?
— Zendaya
The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.
— Ricky Gervais
A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A man who works with his haands, his head, and his heart is an artist.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue.
— Marianne Williamson
For the love of his art
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The lyrical author is only concerned with his production, enjoys the pleasure of producing, often perhaps only after pain and effort; but he has nothing to do with others, he does not write in order that: in order to enlighten men or in order to help them along the right road, in order to bring about something; in short he does not write in order that.
— Soren Kierkegaard
These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.
— John Milton
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
— John Milton
In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.
— Kamasi Washington
If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
— Lady Gaga