Quotes About Artistic

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

The cinematographer's basically translating the director's vision into imagery.

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

When I discovered minimal music I felt I could create my vision - it was totally different to traditional music.

I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

I'm a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there's a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I'd really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.