Misty Copeland Quotes

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

What happened in my life made me a better artist.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

I think your life informs your art.

My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think that we do. But within that, the most important part is that even though we're influenced, what are the levels of invention that we carry forth even as we've been influenced by something that's come before?

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.