Quotes About Artistic

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think is kind of impossible.

Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.

There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.

I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.

When I was in the studio doing 'Hungry Eyes,' we had to make it an '80s record, but we wanted it to feel like the '60s.

I've been making music for so long, and the main hurdles I've run when dealing with any public exposure is that many of my projects are so different from each other.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

My ideal place to be is on set, figuring out how to tell stories and entertain. That's where I'll usually be if you're looking for me.

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.

I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

If I could find the perfect career of doing television and movies where I could sing, that would be great.

If I could make every movie with Richard Linklater, I would.