Quotes About Artistry

The best artists know what to leave out.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

Dancing well is the best revenge

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.