Quotes about Artistry

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.