The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.
It's a very tough job to host a show and a very tough job to produce a show, and you're in a no-win position.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.
When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
