Quotes About Artistic

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.

Musically, I feel like the band was always my outlet.

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

The French, they're so . . . French.

The unexpected but dependable law that functions in most artistic endeavors: namely that the pursuit of excellence has an even stronger instinctual draw than the need for emotional self-preservation.

Any of these acts whose impact on rock music may not be apparent given their modest commercial success could never be denied the enormity of their artistic influence.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels ' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

We are a very crafty family.

Vis ikke dette brev til andre, for intet menneske vil kunne forstå vores sindssyge forhold, før jeg tager mig sammen og giver kunstnerisk udtryk for det.

It was enough for me anyway to write the poems; there was no hurry to show them to a world that so far had only laughed and scorned them.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Io penso che fosse solo spaventato. Penso che scambiasse qualsiasi manifestazione di stanchezza da parte di Stella per il segno di un abbandono imminente. Dopotutto era un artista, e in ogni artista si annida un bambino sperduto e indifeso.

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.