Fred Ward Quotes

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Making art is an act of faith.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.