Quotes about Artistry
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
— Elbert Hubbard
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
— George Eliot
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
— John Lennon
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
— Ted Dekker
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
— Duke Ellington
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
— Jennifer Lopez
I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.
— Flume
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
— Seth Godin