Quotes About Artistic

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes, and it is just so against what you are making.

There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.

One of the other things that I love about Miyazaki's films, is that when he sets a film in Europe, it's not a documentary - it doesn't really look like Europe, but it's something he internalises, synthesises and weaves into his work. I love seeing that cross-cultural exchange.

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It must be very, very exhausting.

I wanted to do films in different languages.

Years down the line, when people look at my filmography, I'd like them to see a legacy of new-age content films.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

When I finished boxing, all that was available was commentating. But that's not me. I've got too much artistic licence to get out.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.