Art Quote by Win Butler Download Open image “A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.” — Win Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Careers Whole Writing
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music. — Ryan Hurd Copy Share Image
Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician. — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
“...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but… — Bill Drummond Copy Share Image
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a… — Win Butler Copy Share
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion… — Win Butler Copy Share
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image