Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
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There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
