Quotes About Artistry

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.