Quotes About Artistic

My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

All true art stems from the depths of the unconscious mind.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

I've never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.

I've gotten to make my living by my imagination. That's a lovely thing.

Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.

I want to be associated with films that are content-oriented.

It was a very creative atmosphere in my family, for sure.

I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.'

I've always been attracted to the gayish side of fashion. It's just more interesting.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

None of my movies are autobiographical.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.