Quotes About Artistry

Den store dikter avstedkommer en sammenknepen mund i sit ansigt, strammer sit fuglebryst ut til det ytterste og frembringer følgende ord: Å dikte er å holde dommedag over sig selv.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.

I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.

When one's craft is rooted in strong relationship, he or she lures the into becoming a part of the show.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

My religion lies in my composition.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.