Quotes About Artistic

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

Artistically, or just performance-wise, I love playing arenas. I think that is my favorite form, because it's big enough to feel like a big, grand show.

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

I want to try doing music in the style of Conan Gray or 'All Tinted.'

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

Things you learn through the arts are used every day in life. It's a great way to express yourself and get out anxieties throughout the day.

The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

I made three films in Greece, and they're made under very specific, very limited conditions.

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of Beatles and you kind of find your own way in music.

I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.