Quotes About Artistry

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

The artist never entirely knows We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.