Harmony Korine Quotes

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.