Quotes About Artistry

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.

I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill it up with every item that went into the making of the dance.

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

Dance is a tough life (and a tougher way to make a living). Choreography is even more brutal because there is no way to carry our history forward. Our creations disappear the moment we finish performing them. It's tough to preserve a legacy, create a history for yourself and others. But I put all that aside and pursued my gut instinct anyway. I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice.

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.

Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Remember that it is the combination of talents of the director and the actor which produce a perfect performance - and since both of them are you, you just cannot go wrong !

Inner creativity is always there - it just has to be released from its prison.

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky.

He could sing in more different keys during the course of one song than anybody I've ever heard,

I am always locked in my design studio.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Stepping lightly, just like a ballerina.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

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

Diaghilev thinks I have died for the art. I am more alive than ever.

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.