Anthony Storr Quotes

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!

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.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

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

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I design therefore I become.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

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

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

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.

You are the artist and the art.

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

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.