Quotes About Artistic

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

to depict reality - that is as much an artistic vision as a scientific sensibility

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea's not excellent.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Art is an emotional experience

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Great art picks up where nature ends.