Quotes About Art

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.