Quotes About Artistry

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.