Quotes About Artistry

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Magic is my paint.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.