Quotes About Artistry

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

My thing is music, period.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

I'm a fan of good music, period.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

Artists have the ability 2 changes lives with a single per4mance.