Tracy Morgan Quotes

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Acting is what I do with who I am.