Quotes About Artistic

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

I try and write a fair amount in the beginning without the movie. And then when I do get the movie I create these demos, just mock-ups, and I throw them up against the picture and some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. But I'm very careful before I play anything to picture, because that's such a profoundly important moment.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.