I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.
You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.
I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
I'm often asked how I shoulder the responsibility of films, but I've always believed in taking risks.
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.
If the director has clarity of thought and vision, you are bound to just go ahead and do what he wants to do. I respect that.
I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.
