Quotes About Artistry

Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

I'm a believer in presenting something that is worth paying to see. I've always felt lucky in that the work that pleases me pleases other people as well.

An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.

I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.

I feel like what Director Bong is so amazing at is taking so many things and presenting them to you - never telling you how to think, but, if you leave the theater thinking something, we've done our jobs right.

Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I won't call it pressure but I want to come out with a better movie every time. That kind of enthusiasm is what makes an artiste aim for more.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.