Quotes About Artistic

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me, but now I'm happy to add another one too, that being photography

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.