Artistic Endeavor Quotes

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

I draw plays every day.

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.

If you haven't got help, all you can do is make good music.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I'll play guitar.

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

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

The fact that you can even make a record and leave a document that you were here, that's nothing to sneeze at.

I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.