Richard Powers Quotes

Art = a mad search for individualism.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can talk about whatever you want to talk about - it lets you be free.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.