Quotes About Artistry

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting thing is to try to achieve a certain nothingness.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.