Artistic Enthusiasm Quotes

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.

I am mostly concerned about the script. If I get something that excites me, I will do it.

I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.

I love music as a whole. Country music, hip-hop. I just like people being passionate with what they love to do.

I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

I'm addicted to music.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

I love to do the stream-of-consciousness thing, because it's exciting for me, and I like to think it's exciting for the audience, too.