Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Making art is different for everyone.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.