Hunter Schafer Quotes

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is... it's an experiment.

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.

There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.

... 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.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.