Quotes About Artistry

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

In the fashion world, you have to make clothes to sell. You have to make clothes for the press. You have to make clothes for yourself. What I mean is, everything is an obligation. But a writer? A pure artist? Maybe he doesn't make one lira - but he does what he wants.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer.

Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.

As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

The laws of literary creation are unique; they don't change, and they are the same for everyone everywhere. I mean that you can tell a story that covers three hours of human life or three centuries - it comes to the same thing. Each writer who creates something authentic in a natural way instinctively also creates the technique that suits him.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.