Artistic Presentation Quotes

The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about it in an interesting way.

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.

Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it was given a lot of time. I hate it when I watch movies, and it seems like they just went and picked a font and, like, called it a day.