Quotes About Artistic

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

You might be like, 'I want really big hits.' But when you get really big hits, and your label is making $150 million, they are people who are now interested in what you do. They are going to begin to tell you what to do, and so you become important. So your creative freedom - you're not going to have that again.

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.

I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

I've experienced a lot of creative freedom because I'm on a family label. It was nice to put out what I wanted to say and do what I wanted to do.

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

I've felt the noose tightening for me for years at the major labels, where you're allowed to do less and less of what you would do most naturally and expected to do something that was expected to be saleable.

I dislike labels like 'commercial' and 'non commercial.'

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

The right words don't come... the right words usually don't for me. I mostly experience the world in images. I wish I could show the film I'd taken of this girl in my mind.

Nothing sublimely artistic has ever arisen out of mere art, any more than anything essentially reasonable has ever arisen out of pure reason. There must always be a rich moral soil for any great aesthetic growth.

But the reason she was bourgeois was so she could make work that wasn't bourgeois. If she were cautious in her life, she could avoid compromising in her work.

He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.

Yours is much worse than Eastern! You've slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk songs, added some legend-like nonsense of your own invention, and are calling it fiction!

Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

Many people with creative genes also suffer from various neurological disorders; you can be Mozart and still be bipolar," says Salerian. "There is a very close link between creativity and dysfunction of the nervous system—it's part of a mood disorder package that artistic people have a higher chance of suffering from.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.