Inspirational Quotes
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Artistry Quotes
AppreciationArtistryCraftsmanshipCreativityFashion People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
ArtistryCreativityFilm-makingFocusSelf-awareness I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.
ArtistryPurposeSelf-ExpressionVision I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.
ArtistryCreativityPreparationStorytellingThoughtfulness I don't go in and just get to rapping off the dome. I think about it. I really think about it, especially when I make the story.
ArtistryCreativityGrowthIndividualitySelf-Discovery I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
ArtistryCommunicationMessageMessengerService People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
ArtistryCreativityDecision MakingInterpretationLeadership I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
ArtistryIdentityInfluenceMusicStorytelling I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
ArtistryComptonExpressionPerceptionVulnerability You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
ArtistryCreativityFilmInnovationStorytelling That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
ArtistryAuthenticityCreativitySelf ReflectionVulnerability Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
ArtistryCreativityExpressionInnovationMusic I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
ArtistryCreativityMusic Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
ArtistryAuthenticityCreativityPerfectionismSuccess Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have zero songs in my vault. Because I don't have a single song that I haven't heard someone claim as their favorite. And if I wrote it, I'm usually pretty happy with it.
ArtistryCreativityFamilyInfluenceMusic Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
ArtistryAuthenticityIdentityMusicPurpose I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.
ArtistryCreativityDesignEmotionVisual Arts Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
ArtistryAuthenticityCollaborationCreativityMusic Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we're really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.
ArtistryAuthenticityCreativityMusic IndustrySelf-Development A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
ArtistryCreativityDetailPerceptionRealism There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.
ArtistryCollaborationCreativityEnjoymentOpportunities I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.
ArtistryCreativityFocusPerformancePerspective I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
ArtistryLive MusicMusicPerformanceRecording I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
ArtistryCreativityGeniusObservationRules The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
ArtistryCreativityDecision MakingLeadershipResponsibility I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.
ArtistryIdentityInfluenceMusicVoice When I started singing, I had this lower register alto sound, which resonated with the darker timbres of voices like Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Julie London and Billie Holiday a lot more than with the pop singers of the time.
ArtistryAuthenticityCreativityExpressionMessage Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
ArtistryDance TechniquePerformanceStrengthTraining 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.