Quotes About Artistic

Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

The message of great art is to disturb.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Normally I don't listen to my songs. I hear when I'm in the process of creation, of course, but not when I come home, for example, and I listen my album, and this is different.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.