#artistry

As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the last places - they are getting rarer every day - where men and women (and girls and boys, too) can answer that call to be an artist, to learn to give love to the work of their hands. It is one of the last places where the maker - and some farmers still do talk about "making the crops" - is responsible, from start to finish, for the thing made. This certainly is a spiritual value, but it is not for that reason an impractical or uneconomic one. In fact, from the exercise of this responsibility, this giving of love to the work of the hands, the farmer, the farm, the consumer, and the nation all stand to gain in the most practical ways: They gain the means of life, the goodness of food, and the longevity and dependability of the sources of food, both natural and cultural. The proper answer to the spiritual calling becomes, in turn, the proper fulfillment of physical need. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #love #spirituality #work #family

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!! ↗

— Artur Schnabel

#artistry #between #differently #handle #i

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#asked #done #emulate #every #first

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game. ↗

— Patricia Bosworth

#artistry #high-standards #life

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized. ↗

— Robert Blake

#clean #five #growing #growing up #i

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butchering #cows #craft #meat #art

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#artistry #creativity #process #art

Your mind is a canvas, your experiences are the paint colors and your actions are the brushes that show the art in you. ↗

— Louise Philippe Dulay

#artist #artistry #canvas #inspire #life

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. ↗

— Martha Graham

#business

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#music #theater #music