Quotes About Artistry

Dr. Dre I've always been a huge fan of. The Roots as well. The Roots gave me an appreciation for live music.

I'm a huge fan of Paolo Nutini, I'm so in love with his songs and his voice.

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

I'm in the business of creating human beings.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

I think that the nature of being a human being and someone who works in the creative arts is that you hear the word 'no' a hundred times before you hear the word 'yes.'

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

I have hundreds of songs.

A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an "idea" already formed. It is the poem or novel or story that quite precisely tells him what he didn't know he knew: he knows, that is, only in terms of his writing. This is, of course, simply another way of saying that literary composition is not the placing of a held idea into a waiting form.

Her lips were plum as labias.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.