Quotes About Artistic

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

I'll hear a phrase around me that someone says... I'll write it down in my notebook, and as soon as I'll sit down with my guitar, I'll come up with the rest of the arrangement there.

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.

You are bound to pick up influences.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.