Quotes About Artistic

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

I often work by avoidance.

I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.