Quotes About Artistry

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I want to improve my dance moves and achieve perfection.

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.

For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

I'll be honest: I've never wanted to do anything other than perform.

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.

It's in my blood to perform.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much.

I was a dancer, so I always loved watching girls perform and dance and just always looked up to them and their bodies.

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.