Paul Klee Quotes
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Quotes to Explore
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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Your glow was the ailment to all my pain inside. I sat beside your body and asked your name, baby. Your fragrance made it hard to explain my plight of how you’re driving me insane.
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.
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To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.
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Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
