Quotes About Artistry

I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed.

Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.

I always look at Akon as inspiration, and the fact that at one point Lady Gaga was signed to Konvict Muzik.

A lot of people get signed then don't really care what the people want anymore. They're just thinking 'How am I going to make that hit?'

When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are doing.

I got signed to RCA when I was so young and made seven albums with them, plus a greatest hits album.

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is not careful, then it is a very significant moment and a significant work.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

The most significant pieces for me are the ones that come from my drapings. It's emotional because they are created by my hand and then become a collaborative process in the atelier.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.

I work on my own music every day. I'm pretty much always working on it so it's like, after I get out the studio, I just want silence.

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.

It's really deep to me. Although it seems to many people that I'm making silly music, I'm really serious.

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.