Quotes About Artistry

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.