Quotes About Artistry

Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice. I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

Bresson est à part dans ce métier terrible. Il s'exprime cinématographiquement comme un poète par la plume. Vaste est l'obstacle entre sa noblesse, son silence, son sérieux, ses rêves et tout un monde où ils passent pour de l'hésitation et de la manie.

Every artists wants to be applauded

La mano y la vista hacen al artista.

I thought I'd try to write her a life

Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.

Perhaps art is an eye problem…

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

Being a great poet doesn't always mean that you write great poetry.

You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair of jeans... The only way to write is to write – the rest may or not follow.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.