Ben Barnes Quotes

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

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.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

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.'

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.