Jenna Marbles Quotes

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Diplomacy is a little bit like Jazz. It’s improvisation on a theme.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

Artifice is art.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like when you go see a production of a great play and they are always different. There is always room for interpretation.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

You can't just come out and do the same moves that you always do because someone just basically came into the center of the ring and spun around on their head and did a back flip.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.