Quotes about Artistry
The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.
— Paul Graham
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies
— Paulo Coelho
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
— Paul Johnson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When your art fails, make better art.
— Seth Godin
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
— George Bernard Shaw
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
— Seth Godin
Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.
— John Maxwell
The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).
— Jerry B. Jenkins
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.
— John Lennon