Finn Balor Quotes

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

Music doesn't come out of you, it comes through you. You are almost like a messenger.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

Serious art is born from serious play.