Artistic Fuel Quotes

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

When I'm working on a movie, I'm in my trailer playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and think of... it just keeps both fires burning. I kind of need both.

People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.