Quotes About Artistry

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.

I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

You too are a work of art.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.