Maya Angelou Quotes

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

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

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.