Quotes About Artistry

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

I never practice; I always play.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.