Drawing from Life Quotes

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.

More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I certainly always do draw upon stuff in my life. You do that instinctively as an actor.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.