Quotes about Artistry

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Woman is the masterpiece.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

The great poets are to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and by the justification of perfect personal candor. All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.