Quotes About Artistry

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

There's drag queens who lip sync brilliantly. There's drag queens who sing live brilliantly - none of those are me.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

The synergy created from clothing, hair, and makeup combined is truly amazing, so makeup has been, is, and will be a key factor in establishing my identity as an artist.

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.

People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human body, the human voice and of course language.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.

I achieved what all artists dread: I had outlived most of my money and all of my talent.

The trouble is they don't write the lines I want to use any more.

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

there is often not so much perfection in works composed of many pieces and made by the hands of various master craftsmen as there is in those works on which but a single individual has worked.

Create. Don't Compete.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

We are all sculptors and painters. Our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. ~ Henry David Thoreau