Jenny Lewis Quotes

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.

God is in the details.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

A good artist has less time than ideas.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?