“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.” KnowsArtDifferentSelfArtistLevelsMysteryInfluenceBalanceLimitsArt IsTolerancePursuitDelicateDifferent LevelsScotchAssertivenessPersonal Limits Author:Robert Genn
“The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.” ThinkingFeelsImportantIdeasMatterShowsArtistDifficultSidesOpinionBalanceDifficultyFactorsProducersIdolsSessionRabbits Author:Ryan Tedder
“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.” IfsGivingHumansDoeImportantSoulReasonFeelingsRealityArtistPassionTermMoralBoysGreatnessBalanceIntegrityVicesCreatorIntellectMythRangeAccustomedSpecialistsScoundrelsMagnanimityBoy ScoutMoral Integrity Author:Jacques Barzun
“Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.” IfsFeelsI CanTwoJobsFilmMovingFormArtistCertainAudienceBalanceStrikesMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving Forward Author:Jack O'Connell
“The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.” WayNeedsHumansKindArtWholeArtistBornHuman BeingsBalanceArt IsMadTensionExpensesWorks Of ArtPsychics Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton
“Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.” TryingArtistAudienceBalanceExciting Author:Trent Reznor