Quotes About Artistry

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

As your skills increase, you will see your unique style become firm and recognizable. Guard it, nurture it, and cherish it, for your style expresses you. As with the Zen master-archer, the target is yourself.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Poets are ever lords, though short of pence.

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

A DJ's job is to channel the vast ocean of recorded sound into a single unforgettable evening.

skillful trade.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.

Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

I think one of the studio's characteristics is to embrace wholeheartedly what we feel is interesting; what we perceive to be worthwhile, cool, or beautiful; and to place these ideals at the foundation of the games we make.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes; this is the screech of a scar. But Mary Timony was always more kaleidoscope than microscope, creating magical worlds replete with weaponry or sorcery.