Quotes About Artistry

For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

I listen to a lot of Beatles. I have a very specific Beatles discography that I go to.

Thundercat, specifically, is insane. I'm always surprised at the things he comes up with when we're jamming out together. I gotta try to keep up with him and his ideas, be able to respond without speaking, and come through with some more music. He challenges me to keep it musical and not so computer.

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.