Quotes About Artistry

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to it that much.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.

I feel like artists and their lyrics are something that people can relate to when it comes to love and break-ups. I really want people to know how I felt when I went through a break up, when I really felt alive, and everything in between.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

I hired a publicist once I got cast in 'Passing Strange,' and one of the first conversations we had was about how I wanted to handle talking about my sexuality. I said, 'It's never been an issue for me. I want to talk about my work, but if something about myself relates to my work, of course I'll talk about it.'

I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.

I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says, 'Oh, if Danielle did it, I can.'

I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot more confidence in myself.

I hate publicity. The only publicity must be through my work. I can only talk about myself in relation to work. I know about work - but I don't know about me.

What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.