Particular Quote by Frances Stark

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved…

— El-P

I love doing my podcast, but it's not my art form. I don't have to work on it. It's off the cuff.

— Ari Shaffir

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other…

— Hanneli Mustaparta

...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know…

— Larry Sultan

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that…

— Lionel Richie

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place…

— P. J. Harvey

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

— Pen Densham

Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.

— George Newbern

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of…

— M. Ward