Joseph Conrad Quotes

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

I want to be inspired, and I want to hopefully do work that moves people as well.

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 have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

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.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and encourages me to go on a deeper journey to find my own compassion and empathy and humanity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.