Quotes About Artistry

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

I really like figure skating.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.

Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.

That's what we love to do and I think our skating's at it's best when we do that: when we draw people in and hopefully make them feel something.

I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

I recently discovered that Karl Lagerfeld sketches every single design in the Chanel collections. This made me so happy. I know it seems obvious, that the head of a fashion house such as Chanel would do this, but it isn't always the way.

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I don't know how to do anything else and lack any skill that would be applicable on a resume. Drag is what I know. The gigs are my life.

I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.