Quotes about Artistry
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
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
— Henri Matisse
I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
— Ayn Rand
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.
— Ayn Rand
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
— Charles Dickens
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
— Lady Gaga
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
— Evelyn Underhill
I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission.
— Eric Wilson
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
— Erica Jong
You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.
— Robert Trujillo