Quotes About Artistic

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

But maybe I was more like Lena Dunham on her TV series Girls, which examined her own generation with a caustic, withering eye yet also remained supportive. And this is crucial: you can be both. In order to be an artist, to raise yourself above the overreacting fear-based din in which criticism is considered elitist, you need to be both.

Instead, it was a Christianity engaged with modernity (and postmodernity) — grappling with its issues, sensitive to its questions and concerns, aware of its spiritual vacuum, in vital dialogue with its artistic and intellectual leaders. It was a "third-way" faith seeking to steer a course that would avoid defensive retreat and isolation on the one hand and capitulation and sellout on the other.

The lyricist Yip Harburg, author of many classics including "Over the Rainbow," said it simply: "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought."22 Feel a thought. For me, that captures the essence of artistic truth.

The brains left inside of his cloven skull splatter across the blacktop like some garish Rorschach painting made from oatmeal.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Imagination, writes Frank Fenton, 'had run around this city like an artistic child. Somewhere it showed a pure and lovely talent. Somewhere it was crude and humorously grotesque.

The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.

A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where the lines should end. This dreary-sounding definition, unpoetic to a fault, may well turn out to be the best we can do.

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.

In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.

My creative juices flow seasonally.

I've actually seen a good amount of the shows at Lincoln Center Theater. I went to school right across the street at Juilliard, so some of the first stuff I got to see here in New York was at the Lincoln Center Theater. I've always been inspired by the work that they do.

I grew up watching Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow. I dreamed of working in the arts.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.