Quotes About Artistry

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

I believe in creative work.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.