William Saroyan Quotes

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

My work is intensely personal.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing is I hate seeing my films when I'm done with them, so I don't look back as a chart of my life, but I leave it as a kind of chart. Though, it is a photograph, captured.

You are the artist and the art.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

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.

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

All my songs are where I am.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Every good painter paints what he is.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.