Quotes About Artistry

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have the liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecutre, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

Halt was about to indulge in what he called 'creative documentation'. Horace called it forgery.

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...