Corey Hawkins Quotes

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business here that I'm proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

When I was in high school, I was like the only girl making music.

If I hadn't done the PUP video, I probably wouldn't be playing music right now.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.