Quotes About Artistic

I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.

That's what keeps me going: those moments of solving a problem, of what happens to a movie when the right music is added - and what happens to the music when the movie's working with it.

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

Yeah, I'd definitely love to do some scores someday. I particularly love Hans Zimmer's work.

I also write stories and want to show these stories to the world; someday someone might want to direct them.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

It grieved him to think of that paltry, guarded, nut-like thing that was his artistic reputation.

Well, what the heck, poets are supposed to be odd, aren't they?

Yet she couldn't help herself. She couldn't stop writing. She was like a medium receiving messages from the dead.

What's next from you? Paintingwise, I mean." "I don't know. I'm between things now." "Dawn between things or dusk between things?" "I don't know that, either.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.