Quotes About Artistic

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.