Quotes About Artistry

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It's OK to be spontaneous.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.