Quotes about Artistry

We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Woman is the masterpiece.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

The great poets are to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and by the justification of perfect personal candor. All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.