Quotes About Artistry

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

I've always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.

I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

An artiste like me can never be satisfied because it is the dissatisfaction that helps me grow and achieve what I want to.

I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

Sometimes you come up with an idea when you're going out for a job, and then when you actually get into dissecting the world, you end up changing your approach, just because that's the way art goes sometimes.

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

My music is not only different but distinctive.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.

As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

I have never felt like a diva!

The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.

We've got to celebrate all diverse artists and actors and 'Aladdin' does that really well.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.