Laurie Anderson Quotes

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

Theatre is my first love; I would not have done it if I didn't love it and certainly not for the money - you really have to believe in it.

I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

Art is man determined to die sane.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.