Quotes About Artistic

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.

I'm a big believer in cinema, you know - what it used to be? Images and sound, and working it out a bit. I find it exciting watching films where I just go into an impressive world.

Actors are sensitive freaks, but it amazes me that it is something that I haven't improved on over the years.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

We were so limited on time for 'No Burden' that we didn't get to overthink anything. There was no going for the perfect take, or even going for three takes. It was kind of nice because what you're hearing is our first impulse.

What I love about each album is the opportunity to expand on what we've done in the past - to push myself and the band creatively, vocally, and lyrically.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing.

One of the movies I know affected me was 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.' I remember feeling like it was such a brave and scary and awesome movie, and it was so ambitious. I felt really connected to it emotionally.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.

I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.