Quotes About Artistry

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

There are many things I love about my job! For instance, as a creative outlet, there's no better way to express myself than through choreography and physical movement.

Art is a creative outlet and necessary for people involved in creativity.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

Every day I have a new idea or new outlook for my music, a new goal for my music and it's because I'm growing as a woman, as a human being as well. At the same time as I'm growing as an artist in the industry, I'm growing as a human.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

We've never been outrageous on stage.

One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

Contouring in the wrong hands turns into clownturing. I like to build it into my concealer base using cream colours and then put my foundation on over it.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.