Tim Curry Quotes

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.

Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.

It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.