Quotes About Artistic

You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you.

We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.