Quotes About Artistic

Write visually or die!

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

In Chinese or Japanese artistic tradition, there is nothing wrong with cliches as such. The true test of skill is to redefine the familiar. The paradigm of the Japanese Buddhist belief that beauty is rooted in the evanescence of life and therefore its sadness.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

A vague and immense desire to create was in the air. Everyone claimed to be devoted to an artistic activity, or planned to be. All activities were equal, they agreed, and instead of painting or playing the flute, one could always create oneself through psychoanalysis.

Ho cominciato a disprezzare le convenzioni sociali, le pratiche religiose, il denaro. Trascrivevo poesie di Rimbaud e di Prévert, incollavo fotografie di James Dean sulla copertina dei quaderni, ascoltavo "Le mauvaise réputation" di Brassens, mi annoiavo. Vivevo la mia ribellione adolescenziale in maniera romantica, come se i miei genitori fossero stati borghesi. Mi identificavo con gli artisti incompresi.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.

I don't sing professionally; I sing because people who make my films want me to sing. So, as long as they want me to croon in the film, I will sing.

Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

I think where genre is limiting is that in the marketplace, you have to put things in a box to create expectations to make a profit, and that's where you run into trouble.

I could have easily doubled my profit and made two records out of 'Among the Leaves', but the songs represented a certain period, and it made sense to get it out there as one piece.

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.