Artistic Tool Quotes

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

Photography was my choice of weapons.

Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

I certainly love the bluegrass ensemble, I think it's a powerful tool, but I don't think it's more than a tool.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.