Quotes About Artistry

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment.

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

In 'Climax' there are all kinds of colours of skin, all kinds of genders, sexual preferences - but I don't care, I chose my favourite dancers.

I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.