Artistry Quotes

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

~ Annie Dillard

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

~ Pawan Mishra

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

~ Amit Kalantri

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

The secret of good magic is another magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magic is logic.

~ Amit Kalantri

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

~ Amit Kalantri

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

A bad magician never gets the good props.

~ Amit Kalantri

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians, he is just more magical in his presentation.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

~ Amit Kalantri

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

~ Amit Kalantri

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

~ Amit Kalantri

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

~ Nuno Roque

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And I Said To My Soul, Be LoudMadden me back to an afternoonI carry in menot like a woundbut like a will against a woundGive me again enough manto be the childchoosing my own annihilationsTo make of this severed limba wand to conjurea weapon to shatterdark matter of the dirt daubers' nestsgalaxies of glassWhacking glintsbash-dancing on the cellar's fireI am the sound the sun would makeif the sun could make a soundand the gasp of rotstabbed from the compost's lumpen living deathis meO my life my war in a jarI shake you and shake youand may the best ant winFor I am come a whirlwind of wasted thingsand I will ride this tantrum back to Goduntil my fixed self, my fluorescent selfmy grief–nibbling, unbewildered, wall–to–wall selfwithers in me like a salted slug

~ Christian Wiman

Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.

~ Nuno Roque

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

~ Amit Kalantri

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

~ Carol Truax

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.

~ Frank Herbert

Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.

~ John Shelton Jones

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Don't squash creativity, inspire it!

~ Shellie Palmer

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

~ Pawan Mishra

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

~ Darryl Anka

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

~ Rohinton Mistry

I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.

~ Nuno Roque

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.

~ Julia Cameron

For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. Like a symphony, coffee's power rests in the hands of a few individuals who orchestrate its appeal. So much can go wrong during the journey from soil to cup that when everything goes right, it is nothing short of brilliant! After all, coffee doesn't lie. It can't. Every sip is proof of the artistry -- technical as well as human -- that went into its creation.

~ Howard Schultz

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

~ Anonymous

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

~ Robert Mckee

There’s this misconception that artists should create their own mythologies, through how they live. Not true. They should create their own mythologies through their work. In whatever styles, textures and approaches they choose to use.

~ Guy Mankowski

There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was one who heardThe clip-clapper of this tongue of woodAnd knew what the manWished to sing,And with that the singer was content.

~ Stephen Crane

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

~ Kevin Focke

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more.

~ Gregory Peck