I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.
Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.
I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they were at during a particular period and how they have evolved.
I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space.
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.
In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.
I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.
I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
I don't draw on my inner life in my work.
You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
I try to put my own history in my work.
I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.
