Quotes About Artistry

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.