Artistic Possession Quotes

I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

When I make a good beat, I'm possessed. I'm not on earth!

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. And you are like in some kind of possession, where you are doing anything to get the visual. You become another person. You're becoming an artist in action. And then a lot of miracles come. A lot of discovering. It's a very complicated thing.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.