There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

A picture is a fleeting moment of life preserved on a canvas.

Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.

The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

Art is a jealous mistress ...

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.