Antony Sher Quotes

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.