James Turrell Quotes

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.