Quotes About Artistry

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.

I find that I'm really attracted to mysterious creatives, and I love people that are able to put their emotions out there for not just the world to see, but just that are giving of their emotions, but a little bit mysterious and elusive as well.

Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel the mess that is life - and who are bigger messes than artists?

It's still a mysterious thing, making music.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

For years, I've been so passionate about nail art and about doing my nails constantly, with different nail artists from around the world.

It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move.

My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

Drumming is my middle name.

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.

Art? That's a man's name.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.