Quotes About Artistic

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.

I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.