Sam Hunt Quotes

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

What I've found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it's the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.

To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I know someone might look at a creative person's job and think it's pretty fun. It is. It's the best thing in the world, but it's also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride.

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.

I lose faith every time I have to start a new page, and this is no joke. I've occasionally been criticized over the past couple of years for publicly "complaining" about how difficult drawing comics is, yet I've only mentioned it so that the younger cartoonists who are trying it out and finding it difficult and painful realize that they're not alone. There's not really any set way of learning how to do this, and it's always a struggle to improve, and, more importantly, see accurately whether or not one's work is communicating any shred of feeling or truth at all.

Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

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