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“Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“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

“Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker”
― Star Trek The Next Generation

“You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.”
― Amit Kalantri

“It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop. He wished to improve that which was already perfect . . . and so he ruined all.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.”
― Amit Kalantri

“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud

Madden me back to an afternoon
I carry in me
not like a wound
but like a will against a wound

Give me again enough man
to be the child
choosing my own annihilations

To make of this severed limb
a wand to conjure
a weapon to shatter
dark matter of the dirt daubers' nests
galaxies of glass

Whacking glints
bash-dancing on the cellar's fire
I am the sound the sun would make
if the sun could make a sound

and the gasp of rot
stabbed from the compost's lumpen living death
is me

O my life my war in a jar
I shake you and shake you
and may the best ant win

For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things
and I will ride this tantrum back to God

until my fixed self, my fluorescent self
my grief–nibbling, unbewildered, wall–to–wall self
withers in me like a salted slug”
― Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing: Poems

“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the apex of human existence, and that to work at an ordinary office job was a betrayal of that life, and I had to pursue that life at all costs. Management consulting, law school, med school, those were fine for other people â€� I didn’t judge! â€� but I was an artist. I was super special. I was sparkly. I would walk another path.

And I would walk it alone. That was another thing I knew about being an artist: You didn’t need other people. Other people were a distraction. My little chrysalis of genius was going to seat one and one only.”
― Lev Grossman

“Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without ‘Artâ€� is just ‘Eh”
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.”
― Amit Kalantri

“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling.
Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians, inciters, exciters,
spiritual guides and sources of inspiration.
If the musician is illuminated from within,
he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.
Then he is serving planet and its people,
healing what ails us. Such music is truly important.
It is said that “only one who obeys can truly command.�
When the artist is immersed in a services,
giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:
He is being seen by all others as a master.”
― Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

“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

“(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:)
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.”
― Tommy Tune, Fred Astaire

“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.”
― Jeff Ryan

“A bad magician never gets the good props.”
― 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

“A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.”
― Amit Kalantri

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

“A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.”
― 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

“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.”
― Amit Kalantri

“General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricksâ€� but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".”
― Amit Kalantri

“What was the point of accurately rendering sketches, when everyone could draw up the same picture in their minds? What was special about being able to hold an image clearly in his head, rotate it, and see different angles of light reflecting off of it? Thanks to the Stream, everyone could do that now. The Stream robbed him of his artistic skill. Stupid Stream”
― Michael Walterich, Gently Down