Jeremy Scott Quotes

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

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've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

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

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

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

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.