Quotes About Artistic

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.

Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

For me, 'Blade Runner' is one of the big influences in my life - I saw it when I was 13 or 14, when it first came out, and since, I've seen it many, many times.

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

The anime that inspired me the most and one that I probably have influence from is the very first series of 'Lupin the 3rd.' I'm very drawn to 'Enter the Dragon' and 'Dirty Harry,' too. They definitely inspire me.

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.