Quotes About Artistic

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.