Quotes About Artistry

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

I typically, with my work, like to approach it in a bigger way. That's sort of how I am. And I remember when I was getting into television, the handcuff that gets put on you right away, especially when you're a theater kid, is, 'Be smaller, be smaller, be smaller.'

I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

I felt really lucky that 'Hairstyles Of The Damned' and 'The Boy Detective Fails' were both bestsellers, and I thought that donating the money from 'Demons' was a good way to respond to that. My favorite artists are the ones that are willing to experiment, even if it means a smaller audience.

It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.

I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage.

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

I feel like you're able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn't a smash.

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.