Richard Gere Quotes

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

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

You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.

While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's almost like listening to a different person.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.

With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.

Sometimes, you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And, other times, you just know what that feeling of hurt, love, anger and depression is, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind, and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.