Quotes About Artistry

All good art is an indiscretion.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.