Quotes About Artistry

The first time that I stepped onto a stage, it was life-changing. For once, I felt comfortable and in a place where I belonged. It changed my life forever.

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard.

Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.

I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.

I have trained for 30 years in Indian classical dance and there is nothing more beautiful in my eyes than stepping out of the box.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.

I never know which camera is on me when I'm dancing and the director picks the shot he likes but it usually isn't the best shot for showing the steps I want the audience to see.

Saroj Khan was actually my dance teacher. I have watched her and learned many dance steps.

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I showed her my cubicle of commercial artistry, and drew her attention to my latest project. "Oh, that's lovely," she said when I pointed out the drawing of a nymph with flowers in her freshly shampooed hair. "That's really nice." That "nice" remark almost spoiled my day.

the difficulty was in training the eye to see the whole world of usual forms -- patterns of brick, painted plaster, carved and carpentered wood -- not as "buildings" and "streets" but as an infinite series of free and arbitrary choices. There was no place in such a scheme for orders, styles, sophistication, taste. ("The Asian Shore")

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Destiny never defames herself but when she lets an excellent poet die.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

would always advise any young writer for the theater to do everything—to adapt plays, to translate plays, to hang around theaters, to paint scenery, to become an actor. . . . There's a bottomless pit in the acquisition of how to tell an imagined story to listeners and viewers.