Quotes About Artistic

I am not seditious. I do not want to stir up people's ideas and feelings. If I take off the blouse of culture and society, then it is naked. I do not try to put clothes back on, because that is not my job.

As with any artistic trend, Twee doesn't become a movement until it gets its own household name. He arrived in the corduroy-draped, beanpole shape of Wes Anderson.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

Dan Murphy's diagnosis added Lia Lee to a distibguished line of epileptics that has inlcuded Soren Kierkegaard, Vincent van Gogh, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, all of whom, like many Hmong shamans, experienced powerful senses of grandeur and spiritiual passion during their seizures, and powerful creative urges in their wake.

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.