Quotes About Artistry

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning. I don't miss nothing and everything is good. Everything I thought of is incorporated in it.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.

Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

There are far worse things then jazz and lipstick... -Griffin Durant (hero)

I don't see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming…uncreative. You can't make anything new. Everything already is what it is.

Sexual creativity is a mystery that will never be solved by commercialism.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.

Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out,' I reply. Cinna puts his arm around my shoulder and leads me into lunch. ' Don't worry, I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Peeta'n?n, Oyunlar'? resmetmek için bir f?rçaya ihtiyac? yoktu. Sözcüklerle de ayn? ustal?kla oynayabiliyordu.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.