J. Carter Brown Quotes

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not be the preserve of the few.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.