My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.
I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
Art has absolutely changed my life.
Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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