Quotes About Artistic

There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.