Quotes about Artistry

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

I write music every day.

All the beauty in the earth bears the fingerprint of the master creator.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.