John Lone Quotes

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

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

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

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.

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

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

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

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.