Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.
I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.
My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.
I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your own taste, what kind of art you want to create for yourself.
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
I like making art.
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.
All art is a confession.
The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.
Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.
I have a very difficult time describing my music.
