Quotes About Artistic

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

In the fall nature informs us of its artistic side. It again confirms the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.