Tom Irwin Quotes

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

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

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

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!

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.

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've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

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

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.

I design therefore I become.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.