Quotes About Artistry

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

I put my heart in my work.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.