Quotes About Artistry

I am aware that a computer can't create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

What I do is so important to me. It's like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.