Quotes About Artistry

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.

I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

You have to keep doing it, Even if no one is watching. The best artists, are those Who live from their expressions, Not chasing the impressions.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

I want my music to evolve to become more me.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.

Exaggeration is my only reality.