Quotes About Artistry

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Each artwork requires its own design

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.