Alison Mosshart Quotes

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

The moment I moved to New York City to study fashion, I met and became friends with people not only involved in fashion but in all the arts. It's quite fluid with so many types of artists, designers, and musicians who know each other through collaborations or friends of friends.

I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure.

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

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

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

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