Quotes About Artistry

I love all of the ballets that have a really strong story in them where I get to play a character. I don't enjoy the ones that are more technical without a story line and it's just me on stage dancing.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

I personally make sure that my songs are all original without any technical help, and only when that happens that I get complete satisfaction as a singer.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

I find composition difficult. I never thought of myself as someone who can crank it out. I can't crank it out - I have to dig it out the hard way. In some sense, you become more confident in your technical apparatus, but it becomes harder to do something you haven't done already.

We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for.

I love the classic side of skating, making it look like a full program and not just technical based.

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story.

Everyone is different but I love to watch that type of football: the clever players, the technical players. The beautiful game.

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.