Quotes About Artistry

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.