Quotes about Artistry
As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.
- Ricky Gervais
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
- Oscar Wilde
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- Oscar Wilde
People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.
- Oscar Wilde
But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
- Pablo Picasso
For many centuries, nobles and magnates supported artists, musicians and authors so that their creative works would be dedicated to them.
- Dale Carnegie
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
- William Faulkner
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
- William Faulkner
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
- Christina Ricci
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
- Lewis Carroll
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon