This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.
Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.
Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his free time, he didn't mind giving us cues. We picked up a lot from him.
That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
Never forget the value of time. You can acquire much in life. By comparison, time is fixed. Use it wisely.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.
The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.
That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.
The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.
Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.
If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?
