Quotes About Artistry

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

I love working in the theater.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

I love my music and recording people.

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

I love the idea of creation and creativity.

I love doing my own make-up.

I love walking onto the set and the blindfold is taken off and then everything I do is fresh and in the moment. That's why I loved working with Darren Aronofsky.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

We're not mad. We're inhabited