Artistic Benefit Quotes

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

Comedy has been so good to me.

What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

I have been a product and a beneficiary of the creative industry.

I don't have much foresight, and I think that's an asset for an actor.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.