John Leguizamo Quotes

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

All my work comes out of my life.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.