Quotes About Artistry

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg's world, I feel very at home there

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.