Quotes About Artistry

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.