Francis Bacon Quotes

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I think is right artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm perfectly comfortable working. I don't need to sit around and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.

Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.