Quotes About Artistry

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

That's my style - to mix a lot of print and pattern and put it all together.

There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?'

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a country that I love, and a culture that I love.

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

My priority will always be my performance more than anything associated with a film. I always look forward to give my best to the character I play on screen.

Acting is always the priority and I love doing what I do, but I'm also very interested in directing and writing and getting a hand in every part of the movie making process.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.

It's a privilege to always be able to create.

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'