Quotes About Art

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

Music is such a part of my soul.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life for me anymore.

All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

I think it's important to make art for a myriad of reasons. The least of which is that I think laughter is medicinal, and I think there is an escapism aspect - an act of self-care.

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just don't like it if it's super bad because I'm a loving person, I love everybody and human beings. I do have a darkness to me, but I would never do bad things or wish bad things on people, or hurt anything or anyone.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.