David Sanborn Quotes

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

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

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

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

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

Everything I make starts very personally.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!