Brandon Boyd Quotes

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

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.

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.