Marco Bizzarri Quotes

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

All artists are crazy.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I don't get stressed out about my films because the box-office collection is not in my control.

My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

I have my own studio. I'm in it all the time.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.

I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.