Quotes About Artistic

One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. Here she will be able to refind her strength, the strength she needs to look and work at the second half of the problem - the neglected pure relationship. Only a refound person can refind a personal relationship.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

the pastel sea of trees and flowers.

Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.

One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is a signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters.

good is bad, if bad means "not a profitable thing to aspire to." And perfect is bad, because you can't top perfect. The solution lies in seeking out something that is neither good nor perfect. You want something remarkable, nonlinear, game changing, and artistic.

My profanity has an aesthetic.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.