Quotes about Artistry
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
- John Maxwell
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
- Steve Jobs
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
- Samuel Johnson
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
- Marina Abramovic
Write while the heat is in you.
- Henry David Thoreau
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
- Heinrich Heine
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
- Vincent Van Gogh
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
- John Milton
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
- Ronald Reagan
Creativity has got to start with humanity.
- Marilyn Monroe