I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!
I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!
A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.
I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.
I did a CD way back in 1989, but I never got it off the ground.
There [are] times when I put out an album, and I don't hear my songs really on the radio a lot, and it's like, Dang, I ain't inside that world. But I'm still moving some people or touching some people.
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
