Artistic Need Quotes

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

Artists need to express.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

The artist in me cries out for design.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.

I'm always about trying to fill a need with what I do in my artistry. There is definitely a need in the performing arts world for a movement to come along that seriously connects with a next generation audience while still maintaining the timeless artistic objectives present throughout the history of the American music tradition.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.