Laurie Metcalf Quotes

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

This creating? It's my passion.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.