Alison Mosshart Quotes

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

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I design therefore I become.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Everything I do is a learning experience. It's still fun to me because I grow with every project and every song.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

If I return to films, the feeling to do it must come from the heart.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

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.

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!

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

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.

My compulsion is to create things.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

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'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!