Woody Allen Quotes

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!' But now I think it's just been one big enterprise of illustrating. I used to do it with colored pencils, and now I do it with this voice and this set of limbs.

As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art.

All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

I don't feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I'm 'edgy.' Been there, done that mentality. I'm just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

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

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

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

I came into my own, you might say, in terms of putting out my first record quite late in life. And yet there's some authors and photographers and even probably recording artists that didn't really hit their stride until their mid-50s.