T. C. Boyle Quotes

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Through art, you create your own world.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.