Jane Hirshfield Quotes

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

I have the space and liberty to create.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

I love the studio. It's my place to escape and to create and to try anything.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.