Quotes About Artistry

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n' roll.

A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece.

Each of us has the ability to create

It's okay darling, creative people are called crazyall the time.

We are here to create our dreams. We are here to make our life so beautifully true to ourselves that it can never be replicated, a stunning masterpiece added to the world.

Love is the stimulation for the creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my existence even more by standing on a large stage.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don't want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.