Paul Strand Quotes

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.