Quotes About Artistic

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. —Interview on Bravo Channel, Feb. 14, 1991

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.