Quotes About Artistry

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere.

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Ich bin ein fleißiger Mosaikarbeiter, kein Dichter.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.

No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling that a beautiful pop song can give you - but make it real. It's not polished.

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer songs. If I write 10 songs I believe 80 percent of them are good and gonna be used.

I am keen to do quality films; it is not quantity that I am looking at.