Lionel Richie Quotes

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

You may or may not like 'Baaz.' But you will definitely say I have done something different.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

There are some artists that may actually be crazy, but there are some artists that just make different choices, and because they are different, we call them crazy.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.

Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.