Quotes About Artistry

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

There's always a different energy when you're surrounded by a group of women creatives.

Woman is the masterpiece.

I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

After watching 'Stanley ka Dabba,' I just told myself that the one guy I have to work with is Amol Gupte. The reason being, his films are very simple and they create such a magical world around.

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.