Quotes about Artistry
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
— Dorothy Sayers
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
— Elbert Hubbard
I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.
— Elton John
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
— Jack Kerouac
I definitely don't want to only make music in the Christian genre. I want to expand and kind of dive into whatever else is in store. But that doesn't mean I don't love what I get to do as well.
— Lauren Daigle
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