Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul.