Quotes about Artistry
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
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
It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.
— Jason Fried
We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.
— Denzel Washington
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
— Julian Casablancas
Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
— Thomas Merton
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.
— Thomas Merton
The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.
— Thomas Merton
They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.
— Thomas Merton
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
— CS Lewis
You can make anything by writing.
— CS Lewis