Gary Busey Quotes

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a lot of questions is that part of this job and this life we've chosen is doing personal exploration in front of an audience. In a lot of ways, that's what art is: personal searching with people watching.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.