Baz Luhrmann Quotes

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!

All my songs are where I am.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Making art is different for everyone.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

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

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

Every artiste has a process.