Sarah Kay Quotes

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

I work really hard on my craft.

I love my craft.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

You only get better by playing.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.