Amanda Seales Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.

I'm not a fan of my own work. People ask why I do it, but it's because I actually love what I'm doing in the moment. I live for it. It's a release.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.