Quotes About Artistry

No me interesa la credibilidad, sino la libertad, y he descubierto que escribir puede proporcionarla.

Did you know that you could sit in front of a screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn't last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it's awesome. It's everything.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even when they try their best to be identical, because we're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Most people are reluctant to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity. But creativity is simplicity.

THINK LIKE A HERO (who can I help today?), WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (what else can we try?), REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (pursue excellence, then kill it.), and CELEBRATE (but take no credit.).

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.   AT

Moving on and not looking back, not living in the past, was a way to trick myself into further creativity.

because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.

Great video comes from thinking humans, not equipment.

there's a difference between when this happens in an artist's studio or on the tennis court versus inside the barrel of a fifty-foot wave. When you tap into that much force while pushing the absolute limits of human performance, that's more than just an imaginative breakthrough—that's bending reality to your will.

Creativity has a brain wave signature as well: alpha waves pulsing out of the brain's right hemisphere.

Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it's a more inviting one.

creative wordsmiths, who need to know the canons of pedestrian prose

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.