Quotes About Artistic

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.