Quotes About Artistic

When I was young, I went with my mum to see some really random independent films, which really spoke to me: 'My Beautiful Laundrette,' 'Secrets and Lies'... It wasn't all arthouse, though!

Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to endure the long indignity of watching the owner clutter it up with knick-knacks and furniture.

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can't ever go away. It's what other people only dream about. You're an artist.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

I'd rather be creative and be artistic and be able to play intricate music that moves and really takes you on a journey.

I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

I choose my films carefully. I have done movies that are sensitive, which deal with some issue and are a mirror of society.

Dolph writing movies. Dolph into fashion.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.