Laurie Simmons Quotes

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

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

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.

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

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

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

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

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

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

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.

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.

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

As I showed the world my art, my heart, I wasn't just an actress. I was actually an artist. And that was my transformation.

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.