Quotes About Artistic

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

Along the way, he published a novel about the music business with the title Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey.

You can work alone for years, it's actually the only way to work if truth be told; but there always comes a moment when you feel the need to show your work to the world, less to receive its judgement than to reassure yourself about the existence of this work, or even of your own existence, for in a social species individuality is little more than a short piece of fiction.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

When do we get to the interesting part—the tortured souls, the impossible dreams, the agony and the ecstasy of creation?

When the job presents clear goals, unambiguous feedback, a sense of control, challenges that match the worker's skills, and few distractions, the feelings it provides are not that different from what one experiences in a sport or an artistic performance.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list--- which today is priceless.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

It is not that artistic power has left the world but that a more rapid life has developed itself in it, leaving no time for deliberate dainty decoration or labours of love.

On the Threshold by Professor Pezhman Mosleh is an artistic treasure for a treasured human being (Dr. Irvin Yalom).

My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

Among the many highly complex and artistic patterns which have been discerned throughout these chapters we may highlight the rather obvious one: that the judgments, like the plagues in Egypt, are the prelude to the rescue of God's people.

Romantics deified the imagination;

Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on detail, going back and forth several times during a standard painting session. This movement from big to small and its reverse keeps your right brain active. It also helps integrate parts of your image to the whole.

Don't cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn't mean to write, leave it.) Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don't even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.) Lose control. Don't think. Don't get logical. Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.

I offer myself in paint instead. It's self flattering, but that's our prerogative as artists—to record ourselves the way we wish.