Artistry Quotes

"I always want to give my fans a piece of who I am, and I try and do that with each album by divulging a little more." "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." "When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time" "Beauty awakens the soul to act" "Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on" "Contrast is what makes photography interesting" "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." "I want to see thirst inside the syllables" "There is no genius without a touch of madness" "The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be" "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat" "If you want to work on your art, work on your life first." "To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new" "Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance." "A writer survives on his weaknesses and gets killed by his strengths." "Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got." "Make good art" "If you go to your grave without painting your master piece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it" "I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be Nicki." "This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us"