Quotes About Artistic

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

I work from the inside out.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.