Creative Endeavor Quotes

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

I want to do, like, 50 records.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

My artistry is my baby.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

I have sworn to die painting.

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.