Quotes About Artistry

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.

When you make an album, you have a team of musicians you work with; when you're a director and you're creating a motion picture, it's a much bigger animal.

It feels like a lot of times when I'm watching people perform, they're just going through the motions and checking boxes. Costume - good, hair - good, make-up - good, death drop - good; it's like they're just going through a checklist of what makes a 'good performance' but it's not entertaining, it's very disposable.

Artistes are all motivated differently, with different experiences.

There was a point of time when there wasn't anything new coming to me, but the same old scripts. But, the script of 'Thira' motivated me.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

I work for creative satisfaction. It's my hunger for good work that motivates me to explore.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.

I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

as Will Rogers said long ago, "When you ain't nothing else, you can claim to be an artist—

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look... To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

See that? Paul said. Ten goddamn seconds. I don't get it. You didn't even have to hear the whole song, just a few lines, and you got the chills and that swirly, happy-sad feeling in your gut, didn't you? ... That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.