Quotes About Artistry

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work with. He's a dream.

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.