Jimmi Simpson Quotes

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.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

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.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find my voice.

I'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their ideas in one pot and move on. Me, I need to compartmentalize.